Word Meanings - BELLANIMALCULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.

• Water gage
  See Water gauge.
• Water spider
  An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries d
• WATERHARE
  A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.
• Water hen
  Any gallinule.
• Water tiger
  A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
• WATERLETTUCE
  A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
• Freshment
  Refreshment.
• Water laverock
  The common sandpiper.
• Waterway
  Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.
• WATERMONITOR
  A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.
• Water ballast
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• Water meadow
  A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.
• WATERANTELOPE
  See Water buck.
• WATERPILLAR
  A waterspout. [Obs.]
• Water brain
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• Water nymph
  A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.
• WATERBOATMAN
  A boat bug.
• WATERRADISH
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• Water cement
  Hydraulic cement.

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