water dragon

Questions about water dragon

What does water dragon mean?

water dragon means "North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for water dragon?

Close synonyms include lizard's-tail, swamp lily, Saururus cernuus, marsh marigold, kingcup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water dragon a common word?

water dragon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.