Word Meanings - PLANORBIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.

• WATERPARTING
  A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.
• Water dock
  A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
• Water-retted
  of Water-ret
• WATERDEVIL
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
• Generalized
  of Generalize
• WATERPOX
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
• Water flannel
  A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
• Water shrew
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palu
• WATERFOX
  The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning. Walton.
• Generatrixes
  of Generatrix
• WATERSCORPION
  See Nepa.
• Water germander
  A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
• Water supply
  A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
• WATERHEN
  Any gallinule. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Havior
  Behavior; demeanor.
• WATERTABBY
  A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
• Water inch
  Same as Inch of water, under Water.
• Water tupelo
  A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.
• WATERLIME
  Hydraulic lime.
• Watering
  of Water

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