Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The popular name of several species of Lemna and Wolffia, natural order Lemnaceœ, plants growing in ditches and shallow water, floating on the surface, and eaten by ducks and geese. See Lemna. Also called duckweed.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic duckweed
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) Duckweed.
Etymologies
- duck + meat; it is eaten by ducks. (Wiktionary)
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“Such plants include eelgrass, pickerel weed, water plantain, and "duckmeat" -- all of which have roots and produce flowers.”
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