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ˈwater-weed
Any aquatic plant with inconspicuous flowers; spec. = water-thyme 2.
1842Browning In a Gondola 210 Your gondola—let Zorzi wreathe A mesh of water-weeds about Its prow. 1848Schomburgk Hist. Barbados 610 Spigelia anthelmia... Loggerhead Weed, Hughes... Water Weed. 1855Anne Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 185 He found that this water-weed [sc. Anacharis] had..accumulated there in great profusion. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 257 The ‘New Water-weed’ (Elodea canadensis), an American plant, was first remarked in Britain in 1817. 1890Bridges Shorter Poems ii. v. 27 The water⁓weeds, that..scarce allow a narrow stream to pass. 1914Blackw. Mag. Aug. 211/2 We pass..shikaras laden with wood or hay or water-weed. |