Word Meanings - WATERSUPPLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.

• Water horehound
  Bugleweed.
• Water torch
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
• WATERLIZARD
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Water leg
  See Leg, 7.
• Waterweed
  See Anacharis.
• WATERNEWT
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
• Water bath
  A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
• 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.

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