Duckweed

Word DUCKWEED
Character 8
Hyphenation duck weed
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Definitions and meanings of "Duckweed"

What do we mean by duckweed?

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. noun

Same as duck-meat. noun

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. noun

Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the family Lemnaceae. noun

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

Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the family Araceae.

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The word "duckweed" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rivers and lakes are filled with small-flowered a kind of duckweed [Lemnaceae] and the lake started to bloom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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.) ❋ Tom Konrad (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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 ... ❋ Apollosdtr (2009)

It's good to touch the green, green duckweed of home. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The pond looks slimy and green with duckweed slithering under the big lily leaves. ❋ Nathreee (2009)

Mason netted baby fish (fry), a tadpole, lots and lots of bugs, duckweed, and other things quite fascinating to a six year old. ❋ Lyda222 (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

REFRESHING BREAK: A boy cooled himself off in a river covered with duckweed in Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The gate was closed with a chain and an ordinary padlock covered with a scum of duckweed. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

The dogs, barking in wild delight over their achievement, splashed through the water, separating the duckweed that covered the surface like a film of pea soup. ❋ Sandra Brown (2010)

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