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DUCKWEED

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("duckweed" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "duckweed"):

common duckweed; Lemna minor; lesser duckweed (of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia)

Lemna trisulca; star-duckweed (cosmopolitan in temperate regions except North America)

great duckweed; Spirodela polyrrhiza; water flaxseed (cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands)

watermeal (any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia; throughout warmer regions of the world)

bogmat; mud midget; Wolffiella gladiata (having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America)

Holonyms ("duckweed" is a member of...):

duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae (family of small free-floating thalloid plants)

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