waterweed
Britishnoun
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any of various weedy aquatic plants
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another name for pondweed
Example Sentences
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"I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells / Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss," he recalled in Personal Helicon.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2013
All they have to do is lift their arms or shake their waterweed hair to provoke screams that would blot out an allclear signal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hair like green waterweed trailed across his throat.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Among other things they point out that a politician should not be 'a waterweed which wobbles hither and thither according to the motion of the stream.'
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard
But how in the world can a man under these sides behave except as a waterweed and a ghost?
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard
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