anacharis

See also: Anacharis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up”) + χάρις (kháris, “grace”).

Noun

anacharis (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A freshwater weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharitaceae), native to America; the waterweed or water thyme.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “anacharis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading

• “anacharis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.