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‖ anacharis|əˈnækərɪs| [mod.L. f. Gr. ἀνά up + χάρις grace.] A North American water-weed (A. Alsinastrum, also called Elodea Canadensis) the only species of its genus, remarkable for its unexplained appearance in Britain in 1842, and the rapidity with which it filled canals, ditches, and ponds, all over the country.
1848Phytol. III. 30 A specimen of the Leicestershire Udora or Anacharis. Ibid. 390 The force of the current detached small sprigs of the Anacharis. 1852W. Marshall New Water Weed 6 Last year the Anacharis was noticed by myself and others in the river at Ely. 1855Kingsley Glaucus (1878) 205 Anacharis alsinastrum, that magical weed which, lately introduced from Canada among timber, has multiplied self-sown. |