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Duckweed

noun

Any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds.

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"Duckweed" Quotes from Famous Books

... See how the duckweed's stalks, or short or long, Sway left and right, as moves the current strong! So hard it was for him the maid to find! By day, by night, our prince with constant mind Sought for her long, but all his search was vain. Awake, asleep, he ever felt the ...

— Chinese Literature • Anonymous

... craters half-filled with water already had duckweed growing. Words are inadequate to express the horror and loneliness of that place which seemed peopled only by the ghosts of those "Beloved soldiers, who love rough life and breath, not less for dying faithful to ...

— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp

... that my faith in man is the greater because I have watched for the coming of the song sparrow in the spring; and my thoughts of immortality are the less wavering because I have cherished the winter duckweed ...

— The Promised Land • Mary Antin

... the best plant is fanwort. Other good kinds are hornwort, water starwort, tape grass, water poppy, milfoil, willow moss, and floating plants like duckweed. Even if you do not know these by name they are probably common in your neighbourhood. Fill the tank with clean water. That taken from a spring or well is better than cistern water. After two or three days, when the plants seem to be well ...

— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller

Words linked to "Duckweed" : Lemna trisulca, hydrophytic plant, Lemnaceae, mud midget, great duckweed, Lemna minor, aquatic plant, watermeal, Spirodela polyrrhiza, water plant, bogmat, lesser duckweed, family Lemnaceae, water flaxseed, hydrophyte, Wolffiella gladiata, common duckweed