Lily Pad Definitions

Useful Words

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Afloat : پانی میں تیرتا ہوا , Oil Slick : تیل کی سطح کی باریک تہ , Tea : چائے , Root : جڑ , Common Watercress : آبی سلاد , Bog Myrtle : یورپ امریکہ میں پایا جانے والا پودا , Float : فالودہ , Flotsam : جہاز کا سمندر وغیرہ میں تیرتا ہوا مال , Adrift : ادھر ادھر تیرنے لگنا , Birl : ڈوری سےگھمانا , Skimming : بالائی اتارنے کا عمل , Floe : بہتا ہوا برف , Pond Scum : کائی , Berg : برفانی تودہ , Atomic Number 11 : سوڈیم , Pontoon : چوڑے تلے کی کشتی , Halcyon : ایک قسم کا پرندہ , Horned Pondweed : تالابی گھاس , Headrace : پن چکی کی نہر , Dew : شبنم , Submersible Pump : پانی میں ڈوبے رہنے والا پمپ , Comfrey : کھانے کے پتے , Drown : ڈوب کر مرجانا , Grebe : چھوٹی نسل کی مرغابی , Estragon : مسالے میں استعمال ہونے والے ہرے پتے , Coltsfoot : سدا بہار بوٹی , Common Horehound : خوشبودار پھولوں والی جڑی بوٹی , Atomic Number 19 : پوٹاشیم , Aloe Vera : ایک ہرا پودا , Ballottement : تشخیص حمل کا ایک طریقہ , Celsius Scale : سنٹی گریڈ

Useful Words Definitions

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Afloat: borne on the water; floating.

Oil Slick: a thin film of oil floating on top of water (especially crude oil spilled from a ship).

Tea: a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.

Root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground.

Common Watercress: perennial Eurasian cress growing chiefly in springs or running water having fleshy pungent leaves used in salads or as a potherb or garnish; introduced in North America and elsewhere.

Bog Myrtle: perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface.

Float: a drink with ice cream floating in it.

Flotsam: the floating wreckage of a ship.

Adrift: floating freely; not anchored.

Birl: cause a floating log to rotate by treading.

Skimming: the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid.

Floe: a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.

Pond Scum: free-floating freshwater green algae.

Berg: a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier.

Atomic Number 11: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt).

Pontoon: (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge.

Halcyon: a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves.

Horned Pondweed: found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water; useful to oxygenate cool water ponds and aquaria.

Headrace: a waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine.

Dew: water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.

Submersible Pump: an electrical water pump that is totally submerged into the water.

Comfrey: leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked.

Drown: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating.

Grebe: small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet.

Estragon: fresh leaves (or leaves preserved in vinegar) used as seasoning.

Coltsfoot: perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly.

Common Horehound: European aromatic herb with hairy leaves and numerous white flowers in axillary cymes; leaves yield a bitter extract use medicinally and as flavoring.

Atomic Number 19: a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite.

Aloe Vera: very short-stemmed plant with thick leaves with soothing mucilaginous juice; leaves develop spiny margins with maturity; native to Mediterranean region; grown widely in tropics and as houseplants.

Ballottement: a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus).

Celsius Scale: a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees.