† 1. An (? imaginary) aquatic species of thyme.
1655. Walton, Angler, vi. (1661), 132. Some think that he [sc. the grayling] feeds on Water-Time, and smells so at his first taking out of the water.
2. The American weed Elodea canadensis (formerly Anacharis Alsinastrum), now common in English waters.
1855. Anne Pratt, Flower. Pl., V. 190. The Anacharis is called by the fishermen the Water Thyme.
