Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various submersed aquatic plants, especially of the genera Elodea and Egeria.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any wild aquatic plant without special use or beauty.
- noun Specifically, the choke-pondweed or water-thyme, Elodea Canadensis (Anacharis Alsinas-trum), of the Hydrocharideæ. See
pondweed and Babington's-curse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
anacharis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
aquatic herbs of the genusElodea
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea
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Examples
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I guess I must have hummed along or waved my flask to the old familiar march, for presently the villain Augustus (a frightful handle to fix on a decent enough urchin, but no work of mine) detached himself from the waterweed and came to stand snottering before me with his head on one side, thoughtful-like.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Slippery as waterweed, that's what Jamie said about my-
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Un Mauvais Quart d'Heure After Another I delicately removed a strand of still-damp waterweed from my sleeve and placed it squarely in the center of the blotter.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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She had dragged a little waterweed from under the ice and was now being deprived of it by her drake.
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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Eels swaying through the waterweed and nosing up to the surface, a turtle sunning itself on a rock and stretching a hind leg lazily, and great big bearded dragons posed on rocks with their tails hanging down into the path, scaring – and being scared by – small children.
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Eels swaying through the waterweed and nosing up to the surface, a turtle sunning itself on a rock and stretching a hind leg lazily, and great big bearded dragons posed on rocks with their tails hanging down into the path, scaring – and being scared by – small children.
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Eels swaying through the waterweed and nosing up to the surface, a turtle sunning itself on a rock and stretching a hind leg lazily, and great big bearded dragons posed on rocks with their tails hanging down into the path, scaring – and being scared by – small children.
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The two weeds, giant sensitive plant Mimosa pigra and the waterweed Salvinia molesta, are currently of great concern because they can easily come to dominate wetland areas.
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The vegetation of these plains changes more or less continuously throughout the wet-dry cycle, from permanent open water communities, invaded by the waterweed Salvinia molesta, which, with the giant sensitive plant Mimosa pigra, is rampant, and to ephemeral communities of herbs, grasses and sedges associated with seasonally flooded, cracking clay soils that dry out completely in the dry season when the southern hills become a refuge for the Park's fauna.
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Salvinia is an invasive waterweed that grows in Kakadu National Park.
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