Slippery as waterweed, that's what Jamie said about my. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Salvinia is an invasive waterweed that grows in Kakadu National Park. From Wordnik.com. [Kakadu National Park, Australia] Reference
She had dragged a little waterweed from under the ice and was now being deprived of it by her drake. From Wordnik.com. [The Dressmaker] Reference
Now the fever dreams were gone, though, and sleep was a lake of deep black water, where I breathed oblivion and drifted past the waving waterweed, mindless as a fish. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
The two weeds, giant sensitive plant Mimosa pigra and the waterweed Salvinia molesta, are currently of great concern because they can easily come to dominate wetland areas. From Wordnik.com. [Kakadu National Park, Australia] Reference
Eels swaying through the waterweed and nosing up to the surface, a turtle sunning itself on a rock and stretching a hind leg lazily, and great big bearded dragons posed on rocks with their tails hanging down into the path, scaring – and being scared by – small children. From Wordnik.com. [Illustration Friday: Pattern] Reference
The vegetation of these plains changes more or less continuously throughout the wet-dry cycle, from permanent open water communities, invaded by the waterweed Salvinia molesta, which, with the giant sensitive plant Mimosa pigra, is rampant, and to ephemeral communities of herbs, grasses and sedges associated with seasonally flooded, cracking clay soils that dry out completely in the dry season when the southern hills become a refuge for the Park's fauna. From Wordnik.com. [Kakadu National Park, Australia] Reference
Rogue species of rhododendron, hyacinth and waterweed may be banned from sale. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to The bikini made its debut 63 years ago today] Reference
Davenport argued that banning Canadian waterweed, along with Nuttalls waterweed and curly waterweed, would cost the industry between £2m and £5m in annual sales. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Three days in and all the things you can do that don't quite count as things when you're too busy thinking there's nothing to do, bubble to the surface: you can make cheese sandwiches, load your picnic on to the canoe that holds two of you (along with those swords and pistols you're all too old for), hire a kayak that holds two more, and paddle up a willow-choked river skimming over waterweed. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
2000: Placed on the list of World Heritage in danger because of a destructive invasion by waterweed. From Wordnik.com. [Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Senegal] Reference
"So the waterhorse's wife was sad and cold and hungry in her new home beneath the waves, not caring owermuch for snails and waterweed for her supper. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Madame came to my sitting room each morning, to consult me on the menu for the day, and to present me with the list of expenditures deemed necessary for the provisioning of the kitchen-fruit, vegetables, butter, and milk from a farm just outside the city, delivered fresh each morning, fish caught from the Seine and sold from a barrow in the street, along with fresh mussels that poked their sealed black curves from heaps of wilting waterweed. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Was that just waterweed down there?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Elodea nuttallii - Nuttalls waterweed. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Elodea canadensis - Canadian waterweed. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
waterweed, 116, 117. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
"It's slippery as waterweed.". From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
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