Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old name of the water-arum, Calla palustris, also assigned to Caltha palustris, perhaps by confusion of the Latin names.
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Examples
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One of these jungle swamp pachyderms and a reptile engaged in a struggle in the river, and not some terrible water-dragon with a serpentlike tail such as Rob's imagination had built up with the help of pictures of fossil animals and impossible objects from heraldry!
Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco George Manville Fenn 1870
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Meanwhile Ned and Frank had gone off eagerly to the attack upon the lurking water-dragon, terrible, in its way, as that which Saint George slew, and about half-way to the stockade they caught sight of Tim
The Rajah of Dah George Manville Fenn 1870
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It must be the snorting of a bison, or vast buffalo, seeking shelter from the sun -- or it may proceed from some kind of water-dragon, I thought.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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