Word Meanings - WATERBIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.

• Water oat
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERBRASH
  See under Brash.
• WATERRATE
  A rate or tax for a supply of water.
• Water chestnut
  The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
• Water plant
  A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
• WATERCHICKEN
  The common American gallinule.
• WATERSPANIEL
  A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.
• Water crowfoot
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
• Water rail
  Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
• WATERDOCK
  A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
• WATERTIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• Water engine
  An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
• Waterscape
  A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape.
• WATERFRAME
  A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
• WATERWILLOW
  An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.
• Water gall
  A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
• Water spinner
  The water spider.
• Water hog
  The capybara.
• Water-tight
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.

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