Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several North American water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globe-shaped yellow flowers.
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- noun botany A species of
water lily , taxonomic name Nuphar advena
Etymologies
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Examples
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The same long-rod set-up has also worked well in “dipping” a minnow or jig for crappies amid thick spatterdock weeds or tangled brush where casting and retrieving would be impossible.
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Once there, I saw that getting into position to make a cast required wading out about 30 feet through cattails, spatterdock, hydrilla, and God knows what else.
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Flora: Freshwater tidal marshes at Tivoli North Bay are dominated by narrowleaf cattail, spatterdock and invading purple loosestrife and common reed.
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York 2008
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The tidal marshes are dominated by narrowleaf cattail, wild rice, spatterdock and pickerelweed.
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York 2008
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Deeper marshes and ponds may contain duckweed (Lemna minor) and spatterdock.
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon 2008
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The water in the broad patches of spatterdock where we fished was 3 to 4 feet deep with a sandy bottom — prime spawning territory for crappies.
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Tidal wetland species include wild rice, pickerel weed, spatterdock, rose mallow and phragmites.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland 2007
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The shallow water in front of the marsh proper consists of rooted aquatics, such as water milfoil and wild celery, while broad leafed vegetation, such as arrow-arum, spatterdock, and pickerel weed, predominate in the regularly flooded portions of the marsh.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland 2007
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Northern cricket frogs can be found resting on algal mats or leaves of spatterdock.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Northern cricket frogs can be found resting on algal mats or leaves of spatterdock.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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