Duckweed Definition

dŭkwēd
noun
Any of a family (Lemnaceae, order Arales) of monocotyledonous, minute flowering plants that float on ponds and sluggish streams and reproduce by a kind of budding: so called because eaten by ducks.
Webster's New World
Any of various small, free-floating, stemless aquatic flowering plants of the genus Lemna and several related genera, growing in dense colonies on the surface of quiet water.
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Other Word Forms of Duckweed

Noun

Singular:
duckweed
Plural:
duckweeds

Origin of Duckweed

Duckweed Sentence Examples

  • Fruiting Duckweed (Nertera) - N. depressa is a pretty creeping and minute plant, thickly studded with tiny reddish-orange berries, and with minute round leaves which are suggestive of the Duckweed of our stagnant pools.

  • A Moorhen ran across the dense vegetation, including the floating duckweed, that covered 98% of the stream.

  • Differs from common duckweed in that each frond has many roots.

  • Soon met with the green duckweed that has been present round here for the past few years.

  • Pratia - P. angulata is a pretty plant for the rock garden, creeping over the soil like the Fruiting Duckweed; the flowers white, and like a dwarf Lobelia, numerous in autumn, giving place to violet-colored berries about the size of Peas.

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