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Noun

water-target - aquatic plant with floating oval leaves and purple flowers; in lakes and slow-moving streams; suitable for aquariums

water lily - an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae

Brasenia, genus Brasenia - alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae

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References in classic literature

It is nowhere muddy, and a casual observer would say that there were no weeds at all in it; and of noticeable plants, except in the little meadows recently overflowed, which do not properly belong to it, a closer scrutiny does not detect a flag nor a bulrush, nor even a lily, yellow or white, but only a few small heart-leaves and potamogetons, and perhaps a water-target or two; all which however a bather might not perceive; and these plants are clean and bright like the element they grow in.

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Aqua is the water-targeted counterpart of Terra, a land- monitoring satellite already in orbit.

Checkup of Earth From on High

Aqua is the water-targeted match to Terra, a land-monitoring satellite already in orbit.

Remote Sensing of Planet Earth

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