(n) North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers, Syn.water dragon, Saururus cernuus, swamp lily
pos>n. (Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (Saururus cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]