duckweed
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1. any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | common duckweed, lemna minor, lesser duckweed, |
| definition | : | of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lemna trisulca, star-duckweed, |
| definition | : | cosmopolitan in temperate regions except North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | great duckweed, spirodela polyrrhiza, water flaxseed, |
| definition | : | cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | watermeal, |
| definition | : | any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia; throughout warmer regions of the world (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bogmat, mud midget, wolffiella gladiata, |
| definition | : | having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | duckweed family, family lemnaceae, lemnaceae, |
| definition | : | family of small free-floating thalloid plants (noun.plant) |
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