Word Meanings - BRANCHIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

• Water bath
  A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
• WATERSTARWORT
  See under Starwort.
• Water measurer
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• WATERANTELOPE
  See Water buck.
• WATERPILLAR
  A waterspout. [Obs.]
• Water breather
  Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
• WATERTUPELO
  A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.
• Water opossum
  See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
• WATERBOATMAN
  A boat bug.
• WATERRADISH
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• Water chevrotain
  A large West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
• Water plantain
  A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.
• WATERCEMENT
  Hydraulic cement.
• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERDECK
  A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.
• Containing
  of Contain
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• WATERFLEA
  Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.

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