Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The water-pepper, Polygonum Hydropiper, a plant growing in still water. The name is also loosely applied to other lacustrine plants.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The water pepper, an aquatic plant of the family Polygonaceae.

Etymologies

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lake +‎ weed

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Examples

  • There not five feet away was a bull moose, munching on lakeweed.

    Vermilion Drift William Kent Krueger 2010

  • Riona and Dougal took turns at the bow of the boat with the pole, feeling in the darkness for the bottom and moving aside logs and lakeweed in their path.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • Riona and Dougal took turns at the bow of the boat with the pole, feeling in the darkness for the bottom and moving aside logs and lakeweed in their path.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • Riona and Dougal took turns at the bow of the boat with the pole, feeling in the darkness for the bottom and moving aside logs and lakeweed in their path.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • Riona and Dougal took turns at the bow of the boat with the pole, feeling in the darkness for the bottom and moving aside logs and lakeweed in their path.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • Willis, Laurie and Neal try to navigate through the grasping lakeweed

    resume your resum�� 2002

  • Willis, Laurie and Neal try to navigate through the grasping lakeweed

    6/29/02 You forget how much 2002

  • The water was the perfect temperature between hot tub and swimming pool, and the Lagoness Monster turned out to be a little bit of stray lakeweed.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

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