Word Meanings - CATCHWATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.

• Water horehound
  Bugleweed.
• Water torch
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
• WATERLEMON
  The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
• Drainpipe
  A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
• Water leg
  See Leg, 7.
• Waterweed
  See Anacharis.
• WATERMOCCASIN
  A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.
• 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.
• Water measurer
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• WATERALOE
  See Water soldier.
• WATERPIG
  The capybara. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Water breather
  Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
• Water opossum
  See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
• WATERBLACKBIRD
  The European water ousel, or dipper.
• WATERRABBIT
  See Water hare.
• 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.
• WATERCELL
  A cell containing water; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
• WATERSNAIL
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail. 2. (Mech.)
• Water cure
  Hydropathy.

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