watershoot
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watershoot
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From water + shoot.
noun watershoots
- A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree or other plant. Looking up, Pinckney was fascinated by the tangle above, the soaring air shoots and water shoots, the sagging lianas, cable-thick and tufted with orchids, orchids that imitated birds and butterflies, dun-coloured orchids, variegated orchids, orchids coloured like parrots, orchids festooned like the
- Something which serves to guard from falling water .
- A trough for discharging water. :Template:..}a deal of rain having fallen, and all the troughs in the yard being flooded, and the bark from the wood-ricks washed down the gutters, and even our water-shoot going brown
- Misspelling of water chute (“water slide”)
Talk about this word "watershoot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/watershoot. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. watershoot. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/watershoot "watershoot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/watershoot.
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@misc{watershoot_2026,
title = {watershoot},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/watershoot},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
