Word Meanings - BRANCHIOPODA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.

• Genera
  See Genus.
• WATERELEPHANT
  The hippopotamus. [R.]
• Water bug
  The Croton bug.
• WATERTUTUYERE
  A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• Water parsnip
  Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
• WATERBRAIN
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• Generalship
  The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.
• WATERGILDING
  The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.
• Water clock
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• Water pore
  A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
• WATERCHEVROTAIN
  A large West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
• Water devil
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
• Water rattler
  The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.
• Namaycush
  A large North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.
• WATERMILFOIL
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• Water flag
  A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
• Watershoot
  A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher

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