Word Meanings - CATCHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

• 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.
• WATERBELLOWS
  Same as Tromp.
• WATERPURSLANE
  See under Purslane.
• Water cement
  Hydraulic cement.
• Water pitcher
  A pitcher for water.
• WATERCAVY
  The capybara.
• WATERSHIELD
  An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Water crow
  The dipper.
• Water radish
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• WATERCRESS
  A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.
• WATERTENDER
  In the United States navy, a first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom. He "tends" water to the boilers, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc. There is also a rating of chief water tender, who is a chief petty officer.
• Water elephant
  The hippopotamus.
• Water sapphire
  A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.
• WATERFEATHERWATERFEATHERFOIL
  The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.
• 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
• WATERGOD
  A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
• Collectivist
  An advocate of collectivism.

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