परिवार लेमनासे का कोई छोटा या मिनट जलीय पौधे जो उथले तालाब की सतह पर या उसके पास तैरता है

duckweed's Usage Examples:

put a little duckweed in each container and then do the initial count.

duckweed plants growing together, they create the effect of a green blanket floating on top of the water.

Soon met with the green duckweed that has been present round here for the past few years.

Differs from common duckweed in that each frond has many roots.

A Moorhen ran across the dense vegetation, including the floating duckweed, that covered 98% of the stream.

The familiar duckweed which covers the surface of a pond consists of a tiny green "thalloid" shoot, one, that is, which shows no distinction of parts - stem and leaf, and a simple root growing vertically downwards into the water.

Pratia - P. angulata is a pretty plant for the rock garden, creeping over the soil like the Fruiting Duckweed; the flowers white, and like a dwarf Lobelia, numerous in autumn, giving place to violet-colored berries about the size of Peas.

DUCKWEED, the common botanical name for species of Lemna which form a green coating on fresh-water ponds and ditches.

Fruiting Duckweed (Nertera) - N. depressa is a pretty creeping and minute plant, thickly studded with tiny reddish-orange berries, and with minute round leaves which are suggestive of the Duckweed of our stagnant pools.

duckweed's Meaning':

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