Word Meanings - WATERCHEVROTAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.

• Chevrotain
  A small ruminant of the family Tragulidae a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.
• Water hemp
  See under Hemp.
• Water tick
  Same as Water mite.
• WATERINCH
  Same as Inch of water, under Water.
• Otherways
  See Otherwise.
• WATERRADISH
  A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
• Waterlandian
  One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
• Water wagtail
  See under Wagtail.
• WATERMEADOW
  A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.
• Water bailiff
  An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.
• WATERSOAK
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• Watermark
  A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.
• CALLIGRAPHICCALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• WATEROPOSSUM
  See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
• Water-bound
  Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
• WATERTHYME
  See Anacharis.
• Water newt
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
• WATERBATTERY
  A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water. 2. (Mil.)
• Water cell
  A cell containing water; specifically (Zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
• WATERVOLE
  See under Vole.

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