water torch

Bot.: Typha latifolia. water-tree, s. Bot.: Tetracera alnifolia , a tree about sixteen feet high, with yellow flowers, growing in Guinea. The Red Water-tree is Erythrophlæum guiniense. water-trefoil, s . Bot.: Menyanthes trifoliata. [MENYANTHES.] water-trunk, s. A square rain-water pipe. water-tupelo, s. Bot.: Ny a denticulata . It is a large tree, growing in the Southern States of America, and yielding a fruit sometimes made into a preserve. water-turkey, 8. Ornith.: Plotus anhinga . "This bird is a constant resident in Florida, and the lower parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia; in spring it goes up as far north as North Carolina, breed ing along the coast; in these various localities it bears the name of water crow, Grecian Lady, water turkey , and cormorant."- Ripley & Dana: Amer. Cyclop ., v. 692.