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Duckweed

noun

Any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds.

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"Duckweed" Quotes from Famous Books

... his visit to the country. A comparison of his affection for Widow Thrale and Granny Marrable, with an undisguised leaning to the latter; a reference to the lady with the rings, her equipage, and its driver's nose; Farmer Jones's bull, and its untrustworthy temper; the rich qualities of duckweed; the mill-model on the mantelshelf, and individualities of his fellow-convalescents. This took time, although some ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... monkeys, and monkeys from something else, and so on back to dogs and horses and hedge-sparrows and pigeons and cinipedes (what is a cinipede?) and cheesemites, and then through the plants down to duckweed. ...

— Samuel Butler's Canterbury Pieces • Samuel Butler

Words linked to "Duckweed" : Lemna trisulca, mud midget, Wolffiella gladiata, Spirodela polyrrhiza, star-duckweed, bogmat, family Lemnaceae, Lemna minor, water flaxseed, watermeal, Lemnaceae, water plant, hydrophytic plant, aquatic plant, hydrophyte