Word Meanings - WATERCRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• WATERLEMON
  The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
• Springtide
  The time of spring; springtime.
• Water gauge
  A wall or bank to hold water back.
• Water star grass
  An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.
• WATERMOCCASIN
  A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.
• Spritely
  See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.
• Water ice
  Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
• Water trefoil
  The buck bean.
• Clear-shining
  Shining brightly.
• WATERPIG
  The capybara. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Water lettuce
  A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.
• Water wing
  One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
• Growled
  of Growl
• WATERRABBIT
  See Water hare.
• Water-bearer
  The constellation Aquarius.
• Water milfoil
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• SPREADEAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. [Colloq.& Humorous]
• Runnel
  A rivulet or small brook.
• WATERSNAIL
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail. 2. (Mech.)

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