Word Meanings - WATERPIET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The water ousel.

• Water measurer
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• WATERBALLAST
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• WATERPLANT
  A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
• Water breather
  Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
• Water opossum
  See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
• WATERBREATHER
  Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
• WATERRATTLEWATERRATTLER
  The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.
• 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.
• WATERCHICKWEED
  A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
• WATERSPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERTORCH
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• WATERFURROW
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• WATERWING
  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.
• Water gang
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.

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