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Definition of Duckweed family
1. Noun. Family of small free-floating thalloid plants.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Arales, Order Arales
Member holonyms: Duckweed, Genus Lemna, Lemna, Genus Spirodela, Spirodela, Genus Wolffia, Wolffia, Genus Wolffiella, Wolffiella
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duckweed Family
Literary usage of Duckweed family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"(duckweed family.) Minute stemless plants, floating free on the water, destitute
of distinct stem and foliage, being merely a disk-like frond producing one ..."
2. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... duckweed family. Minute, stemless plants reduced to a floating leaf-like body
three fourths inch or less long (in ..."
3. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... duckweed family. Minute, stemless plants reduced to a floating leaf-like body
three fourths inch or less long (in LEMNA) or even to minute, green grains ..."
4. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"(duckweed family.) Minute stemless plants, floating free on the water, destitute
of distinct stem and foliage, being merely a disk-like frond producing one ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"duckweed family. Minute perennial floating aquatic plants, without leaves or with
only very rudimentary ones. The plant body consists of a disc-shaped, ..."
6. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"Acrid bulbs said io be made edible by boiling. AC Herb.: Rutland 713, Fargo.
Univ. Herb.: Grand Forks. LEMNACEAE. duckweed family. ..."
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