The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lakeweed \Lake"weed`\, n. (Bot.) The water pepper ( Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.
Wiktionary
n. The water pepper, an aquatic plant of the family Polygonaceae.
Usage examples of "lakeweed".
He laid the box containing the lakeweed on the table, and removed the metal circlet from his pocket and placed it beside it.
As he did so, his eyes fell on the box of lakeweed on the table, and curiosity overcame his tiredness.
It was as if the contact between his flesh and the mat of lakeweed was only the beginning of the process, and he remained poised on the brink of the first stage.
Yet after only a few moments he became aware that the method he was now using -- merely resting his hands on the lakeweed -- was inadequate.
The mat of lakeweed had half-slipped from her body, and it had the effect of making her seem somehow pathetic and abandoned, as if she had been thrown there from a passing cart.
At a certain point, he imagined that the energy was being absorbed from him by the cool and slippery lakeweed, and, as this happened, he felt this process taking place.
He covered her with the blanket, folded the lakeweed and replaced it in its box, then left the room and locked the door behind him.
As Niall looked down at this he saw something that made his heart leap: a gently heaving surface of brown lakeweed that covered the shallows to a distance of about fifty yards from the shore.
Several varieties of lakeweed had thrived on the chemical fertilizers Dokken had added to bring the lake into organic equilibrium for the fish.
The lake still provided a fair supply of fish, which became the staple food, along with lakeweed and some grains from fields cultivated by slave labor.