Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A low herb, Littorella lacustris, growing in mud and wet sand in northern or mountainous parts of Europe.
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- noun A small European
plantain , Littorella uniflora, that grows in shallow water or mud at the edges of ponds
Etymologies
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shore + weed
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Examples
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These birds grow to be plump and fat; their flesh has a good odour, excepting the hinder quarters, which smell of shoreweed.
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