Definition of Limnobium

1. Noun. American frogbit.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Limnobium

Limehouse
Limehousing
Limeira
Limenean
Limeneans
Limenitis
Limenitis archippus
Limenitis arthemis
Limenitis astyanax
Limenitis camilla
Limerick
Limerickman
Limerickmen
Limeyland
Limnatis nilotica
Limnobium (current term)
Limnocryptes
Limnocryptes minima
Limnodium spongia
Limnodromus
Limnodromus griseus
Limnodromus scolopaceus
Limnos
Limoges
Limonium
Limosa
Limosa haemastica
Limousin
Limousine
Limpopo

Literary usage of Limnobium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Limnobium ( living in pools, from the Greek). ... Lake Ontario, south and west. Good for the aquarium. Limnobium ..."

2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"Limnobium Spongia LC Richard, Mem. Inst. Paris, 32: 66 t. 8 (1812). Hydrocharis cordifolia Nutt. Gen. 2: 241 (1818). ..."

3. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"... Limnobium, Hydrocharis); style very short, or long and adnate to the perianth-tube; stigmas 3 in the 1-celled ovary, G in the several-celled ovary, ..."

4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1862)
"140, where he sayi, " Limnobium (Hypnum) ... Britannica," having at that time been confounded with Limnobium ..."

5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1862)
"... and recorded by him in the Society's " Transactions," vol. vi. p. 140, where he says, " Limnobium {Hypnum) ... time been confounded with Limnobium ..."

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