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Waterweed

Definition: Waterweed

Waterweed

Noun

1. A weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Waterweed

English words defined with "waterweed": Anacharis. (references)

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Modern Usage: Waterweed

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Waterweed (1994)

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Commercial Usage: Waterweed

DomainTitle

Books

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Usage Frequency: Waterweed

"Waterweed" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Waterweed" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)75%6143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)12.5%1339,140
Noun (proper)12.5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%8N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Waterweed

Language Translations for "waterweed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏حشيشة الماء. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vesirikkaruoho (aquatic weed), vesirikkakasvi (aquatic weed). (various references)

   

French

  

mauvaise herbe aquatique, élodée. (various references)

   

German

  

Wasserunkraut (aquatic weed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aterweedway

   

Spanish

  

mala hierba acuática (aquatic weed). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vattenogräs (aquatic weed). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Waterweed

Derivations

Words beginning with "waterweed": waterweeds. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Waterweed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Watermead. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Waterweed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-r-t-w-w"

-2 letters: dewater, tarweed, watered, wetware.

-3 letters: derate, drawee, redate, teared, warted, weeder, weeted.

-4 letters: arete, dater, derat, deter, dewar, eared, eater, etwee, rated, rewed, rewet, tared, tawed, tawer, tewed, trade, tread, treed, tweed, wader, wared, water.

-5 letters: awed, awee, dare, dart, date, dawt, dear, deer, deet, dere, drat, draw, dree, drew, ewer, rate, read, rede.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-r-t-w-w"
 

+1 letter: waterweeds.

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Alternative Orthography: Waterweed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "waterweed"


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