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- English Word Water plant Definition A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
- English Word Water plantain Definition A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.
- English Word Water plate Definition A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.
- English Word Water poa Definition Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.
- English Word Water poise Definition A hydrometer.
- English Word Water pore Definition A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
- English Word Water pore Definition One of certain minute pores in the leaves of some plants. They are without true guardian cells, but in other respects closely resemble ordinary stomata.
- English Word Water power Definition The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.
- English Word Water power Definition A fall of water which may be used to drive machinery; a site for a water mill; a water privilege.
- English Word Water pox Definition A variety of chicken pox, or varicella.
- English Word Water privilege Definition The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
- English Word Water purslane Definition See under Purslane.
- English Word Water qualm Definition See Water brash, under Brash.
- English Word Water rabbit Definition See Water hare.
- English Word Water radish Definition A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
- English Word Water rail Definition Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
- English Word Water ram Definition An hydraulic ram.
- English Word Water rat Definition The water vole. See under Vole.
- English Word Water rat Definition The muskrat.
- English Word Water rat Definition The beaver rat. See under Beaver.