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family Lemnaceae — noun family of small free floating thalloid plants • Syn: ↑Lemnaceae, ↑duckweed family • Hypernyms: ↑monocot family, ↑liliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Arales, ↑order Arales … Useful english dictionary
duckweed — noun Date: 15th century a small floating aquatic monocotyledonous plant (family Lemnaceae, the duckweed family) … New Collegiate Dictionary
Duckweed Firetail — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta … Wikipedia
duckweed — [duk′wēd΄] n. 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 … English World dictionary
duckweed — /duk weed /, n. any plant of the family Lemnaceae, esp. of the genus Lemna, comprising small aquatic plants that float free on still water. [1400 50; late ME dockewede; so called because eaten by ducks] * * * … Universalium
duckweed — noun Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the family Lemnaceae … Wiktionary
duckweed — noun a tiny aquatic flowering plant that floats in large quantities on still water. [Lemna and other genera, family Lemnaceae.] … English new terms dictionary
duckweed — duck•weed [[t]ˈdʌkˌwid[/t]] n. pln any plant of the family Lemnaceae, esp. of the genus Lemna, comprising minute aquatic plants that float free on still water • Etymology: 1400–50 … From formal English to slang
duckweed — /ˈdʌkwid / (say dukweed) noun 1. any member of the family Lemnaceae, especially of the genus Lemna, comprising small aquatic plants which float free on still water. 2. a native weed, Hydrocotyle tripartita, with small leaves and creeping stems,… …
liliopsid family — noun family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed • Syn: ↑monocot family • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑liliid monocot family, ↑Juncaceae, ↑family Juncaceae … Useful english dictionary
