duckweed (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *duckweed*:
NOUN	plant	duckweed	any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds

duckweed > pronunciation
Sounds	dah'kwiy.d
Rhymes	able-bodied ... worried: 105 rhymes with iyd...

English > *duckweed*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds.
Member of	Lemnaceae, family Lemnaceae, duckweed family	family of small free-floating thalloid plants
Narrower	common duckweed, lesser duckweed, Lemna minor	Of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia
	great duckweed, water flaxseed, Spirodela polyrrhiza	cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands
	mud midget, bogmat, Wolffiella gladiata	Having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds
	star-duckweed, Lemna trisulca	cosmopolitan in temperate regions except North America
	watermeal	Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia
Broader	aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant	A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus / lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth

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