Word Meanings - WATERROCKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers. 2. A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.

• 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.
• Water pipe
  A pipe for conveying water.
• WATERBAROMETER
  A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
• WATERPLANTAIN
  A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.
• Water cress
  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 rabbit
  See Water hare.
• WATERBRIDGE
  See Water table.
• WATERRET
  To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.
• Water elder
  The guelder-rose.
• Water sail
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• WATERCHINQUAPIN
  The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.
• Water-furrow
  To make water furrows in.
• Water speedwell
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• WATERDRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• Water hemp
  See under Hemp.
• Water tick
  Same as Water mite.
• WATERGAGE
  See Water gauge.
• Smallish
  Somewhat small.
• WATERTHERMOMETER
  A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39º Fahr., or 4º Centigrade; and from that point down to 32º Fahr., or 0º Centigrade, or the freez

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