English > Lemna: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root. |
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Synonym | genus Lemna |
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Member of | Lemnaceae, family Lemnaceae, duckweed family | family of small free-floating thalloid plants |
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Members | common duckweed, lesser duckweed, Lemna minor | Of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia |
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star-duckweed, Lemna trisulca | cosmopolitan in temperate regions except North America |
Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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Spanish | genus lemna, lemna |
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Catalan | genus lemna, lemna, Lemna |
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