Word Meanings - SIPHONOBRANCHIATA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

• Water hemlock
  A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
• Water thyme
  See Anacharis.
• WATERJACKET
  A chamber surrounding a vessel or tube in which water may be circulated, thereby regulating the temperature or supply of heat to the vessel. Used in laboratory and manufacturing equipment. water- jacketed. Having a water jacket; -- as, a water-jacketed
• Spoutfish
  A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.
• WATERSOLDIER
  An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet- shaped leaves.
• Waterlander
  Alt. of Waterlandian
• Water vole
  See under Vole.
• WATERMEASURE
  A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell.
• Water back
  See under 1st Back.
• WATERTICK
  Same as Water mite.
• Waterman
  A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
• Whichsoever
  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.
• WATERORDEAL
  Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.
• Waterbok
  A water buck.
• WATERWAGTAIL
  See under Wagtail.
• Water murrain
  A kind of murrain affecting cattle.
• WATERBEAR
  Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada.
• WATERPOCKET
  A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]
• Water celery
  A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
• Water pimpernel
  A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.

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