water-plant

In the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the origin of every alphabet (not syllabarium) known to man, one form was a flag or leaf of water-plant standing upright.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Lake Nyanja, because of the great abundance of a water-plant which requires no soil, and which they name “alfacinya”

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Kolobeng to Angola; and the floats themselves are pieces of a water-plant containing valves at each joint, which retain the air in cells about an inch long.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Thoth; — this is the case with — [hieroglyph] — the leaf of some water-plant.

The Land of Midian 2003

“BEHIND YOU,” Quark muttered as Benjamin Sisko collapsed on the filthy deck of the din-filled water-plant room.

MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

Only now, both liquids and solids were splattering down on the metal deck of the facility, and because of the imbalance in the artificial gravity fields, the odiferous sludge from the vat was oozing toward the back of the cavernous water-plant room.

MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

Only now, both liquids and solids were splattering down on the metal deck of the facility, and because of the imbalance in the artificial gravity fields, the odiferous sludge from the vat was oozing toward the back of the cavernous water-plant room.

MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

Sisko moved cautiously along the slanted corridor to the edge of the oversize water-plant doors.

MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

Sisko moved cautiously along the slanted corridor to the edge of the oversize water-plant doors.

MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

No hiding place on the station was worth an extra three percent, and like a targ to the Klingon wedding feast, Quark had climbed willingly into the sack, hugging the antigrav, until Base tossed him out on the deck of the water-plant room—and the four female Andorian hands went to work on him in a terrible travesty of his fantasy.

MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000