| 单词 | water feather |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater feather water feather n. chiefly U.S. (now rare) any of various aquatic plants with finely divided submerged leaves, esp. water violet (genus Hottonia) (cf. water featherfoil n.) and water milfoil (or parrot's feather) (genus Myriophyllum). [Compare German Wasserfeder (late 18th cent. or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > feather-foil water gillyflower1578 water violet1578 water yarrow1597 water milfoil1760 feather-foil1776 water feather1818 1818 T. Nuttall Genera N. Amer. Plants I. 120 Hottonia..Water-feather. 1897 N. L. Britton & A. Brown Illustr. Flora Northern U.S. II. 586 Hottonia inflata..In shallow stagnant ponds, Massachusetts to central New York, south to Florida and Louisiana. June-Aug. Called also Water-feather. 1954 Amer. Midland Naturalist 52 306 Water feather, parrot's feather.—Ditches, small ponds, spring-fed streams, and swamps. < as lemmas |
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