spatterdock
IPA: spˈætɝdʌk
noun
- A water lily of species Nuphar advena, of temperate eastern North America.
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Examples of "spatterdock" in Sentences
- Deeper marshes and ponds may contain duckweed (Lemna minor) and spatterdock.
- Northern cricket frogs can be found resting on algal mats or leaves of spatterdock.
- The tidal marshes are dominated by narrowleaf cattail, wild rice, spatterdock and pickerelweed.
- Tidal wetland species include wild rice, pickerel weed, spatterdock, rose mallow and phragmites.
- The water in the broad patches of spatterdock where we fished was 3 to 4 feet deep with a sandy bottom — prime spawning territory for crappies.
- Flora: Freshwater tidal marshes at Tivoli North Bay are dominated by narrowleaf cattail, spatterdock and invading purple loosestrife and common reed.
- Once there, I saw that getting into position to make a cast required wading out about 30 feet through cattails, spatterdock, hydrilla, and God knows what else.
- The same long-rod set-up has also worked well in “dipping” a minnow or jig for crappies amid thick spatterdock weeds or tangled brush where casting and retrieving would be impossible.
- The shallow water in front of the marsh proper consists of rooted aquatics, such as water milfoil and wild celery, while broad leafed vegetation, such as arrow-arum, spatterdock, and pickerel weed, predominate in the regularly flooded portions of the marsh.
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