gillyweed

Aquatic breathing plant

Gillyweed is a fictional magical plant from the Harry Potter series that, when eaten, temporarily gives a person gills and webbed extremities for breathing and swimming underwater.

The term occasionally appears in broader fantasy contexts or as playful slang for any substance with transformative effects: He looked like he'd eaten some gillyweed the way he took to the water.

magical

Harry Potter

Fictional adolescent sorcerer

Neville Longbottom · lake · webbed feet · transformation · Hogwarts · wizarding · Snape · herbology · aquatic · submersion

botanical

seaweed

Saltwater aquatic plants

stringy · water plant · greenhouse · harvesting · bundled · knotted · chewy · swallowing · texture · appearance

Categories
Opposites
environmental adaptation

gillyweedair-breathing

Using lungs for oxygen

scuba gear · oxygen tank

elemental domain

gillyweedphoenix feather

Plume from immortal firebird

dragon's breath · desiccation

Family

weed, weeds, gill, gills, weedy, gilled, weedless, weediness

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Used worldwide · Concrete · Rated G