Word Meanings - UNDULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.

• Water measurer
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• Wavered
  of Waver
• WATERMINT
  A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
• Water breather
  Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
• Water opossum
  See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
• SOUNDINGBOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• WATERPENNYWORT
  Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.
• 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.
• WATERBELLOWS
  Same as Tromp.
• WATERPURSLANE
  See under Purslane.
• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERCAVY
  The capybara.
• WATERSHIELD
  An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
• Waterer
  One who, or that which, waters.
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• 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.
• Water gang
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
• Waterspout
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

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