Crossword clues for waterweed
waterweed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anacharis \An*ach"a*ris\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? up + ? grace.] (Bot.) A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family ( Hydrocharidace[ae]), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several aquatic herbs of the genus ''Elodea''.
WordNet
n. a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea
Usage examples of "waterweed".
A stream now ran beside the road, broad and quiet, with ducks swimming on it and brownish-green waterweed under the blue surface.
Choa in his own boat, made of a single cypress log by his father, pushing through cattails, waterweed, and muck on his way back to the creek to tidy up.
He skimmed the treetops, seeming to feel his position with his hands because he was watching the forest, the occasional fields, the swampy spots, and the thick gray-green mats of reeds and waterweed slide past.
Lioe leaned out cautiously into the current, reached for the coat of waterweed that fringed the next piling.
The waterweed came away in her hand as the current caught her, whirling her away from the bank.
Talia wished profoundly that she had been present to witness the grave and aloof Kyril picking himself out of the fish pond with a strand of waterweed behind his ear.
It drifted like a bit of waterweed caught in a current, or like a candle flame dancing in the draft created by its own burning.
Rotwang brought more tea, and dry biscuits and a green paste of waterweed flavored with flecks of ginger.
Her hair streamed among the waterweed and her mouth was blueish and open, like the mouth of a fish.
She had put her hand into the water and seemed hypnotised by the sight of it and by the flotsam of leaves and waterweed that swam into her fingers.
This time, she grabbed for them, her hands sliding in the slimy mess of waterweeds, and then she worked her fingers into the dripping mat and clung, head above water, the current still dragging at her clothes and body.
In the huts of Fisher Row strange folk, dingy as waterweeds, were getting ready their cobles and fishing-gear against the next fast-day.
With the turning of the seasons he shifted the fish bowl around the small room, because he took a keen enjoyment in the rays of sunlight that rippled in the clear water and shone through the translucent green leaves of the waterweeds.
Of meadowgrass and riverflags, the bulrush and waterweed, and of fallen griefs of weeping willow.