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- English Word Water bear Definition Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada.
- English Word Water bed Definition A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.
- English Word Water beech Definition The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
- English Word Water beetle Definition Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidae, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidae. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars.
- English Word Water bellows Definition Same as Tromp.
- English Word Water bird Definition Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.
- English Word Water blackbird Definition The European water ousel, or dipper.
- English Word Water boatman Definition A boat bug.
- English Word Water brain Definition A disease of sheep; gid.
- English Word Water brash Definition See under Brash.
- English Word Water breather Definition Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
- English Word Water bridge Definition See Water table.
- English Word Water buck Definition A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok.
- English Word Water buffalo Definition The European buffalo.
- English Word Water bug Definition The Croton bug.
- English Word Water bug Definition Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to Belostoma, Benacus, Zaitha, and other genera of the family Belostomatidae. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night.
- English Word Water butt Definition A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water.
- English Word Water caltrop Definition The water chestnut.
- English Word Water can Definition Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock.
- English Word Water canker Definition See Canker, n., 1.