Vocabulary : Water cell to Water color
Water cell : A cell containing water; specifically (Zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
Water cement : Hydraulic cement.
Water chestnut : The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
Water chevrotain : A large West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
Water chicken : The common American gallinule.
Water chickweed : A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
Water chinquapin : The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.
Water clock : An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
Water cock : A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.
Water color : A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color. ;; A picture painted with such colors.
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