Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various small, free-floating, stemless aquatic flowering plants of the genus Lemna, growing in close, often carpetlike colonies on the surface of quiet water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as duck-meat.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also
duckmeat .
WordNet 3.0
- n. any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds
Examples
“This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce.”
“Rivers and lakes are filled with small-flowered a kind of duckweed [Lemnaceae] and the lake started to bloom.”
Kola~ the Saami community of Lovozero climate change case study
“PetroAlgae is attempting to commercialize an open pond "microcrop" technology (they are working with other small aquatic plants such as duckweed as well as algae.)”
“A sure sign that water is contaminated is "the parasitic plant known as the lemna gibba or green water lentil" -- it's a kind of duckweed -- "which grows in aquatic environments into which urban runoff is continually discharged.”
“Now the "capture heavy metals" part does worry me, especially if the intent is to use duckweed saturated with heavy metals to feed livestock intended for meat ...”
“We also have a third pump to move gray water from the underground tank in which it is collected into the greenhab, where it is filtered and processed by duckweed and water hyacinths until it is clean enough to use for flushing the toilet, as mentioned earlier.”
“Mason netted baby fish (fry), a tadpole, lots and lots of bugs, duckweed, and other things quite fascinating to a six year old.”
“The pond looks slimy and green with duckweed slithering under the big lily leaves.”
“It's good to touch the green, green duckweed of home.”
“REFRESHING BREAK: A boy cooled himself off in a river covered with duckweed in Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘duckweed’.
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Love Across Kingdoms
Appendix of sorts to AIC, listing plants named with reference to animals and vice versa.
duck potato, hog plum, sorrel mare, horse aloe, horse chestnut, banana slug, tiger lily, buffalo grass, tuna fruit, monkey puzzle, bull kelp, hawkweed and 133 more...
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I Can't Believe It's Not Listed
Words that, at the I put them here, weren't being listed by anyone else in the entire universe.
vagus, neoplanet, fadiddy, cazique, catastroika, circumciser, commonplace book, danseuse, ecopod, dichloroacetate, underlay, overlay and 374 more...
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