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Definition of Frogbit
1. Noun. European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Hydrocharis, Hydrocharis
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
Definition of Frogbit
1. n. A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus- ranæ), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers.
Definition of Frogbit
1. Noun. A European plant, ''Hydrocharis morsus-ranae'', with roundish leaves and small white flowers, that floats on still water and propagates itself by runners. ¹
2. Noun. An American plant, ''Limnobium spongia'', with similar propagation. ¹
3. Noun. A South American plant, ''Limnobium laevigatum''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frogbit
1. a small water-plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Frogbit
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Frogbit
Literary usage of Frogbit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flashlights on Nature by Grant Allen (1905)
"THE frogbit TN SUMMER, FLOWERING. leaves assume this circular shape is easy to
perceive ; they need no stout stalk to support them, like aerial foliage, ..."
2. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... frogbit FAMILY. Water plants, with dioecious, monoecious, or polygamous flowers
on scape-like peduncles from a sort of spathe of one or two leaves, ..."
3. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"E, frogbit FAMILY. Water plants, with dioecious, monoecious, or polygamous flowers
on scape-like peduncles from a sort of spathe of one or two leaves, ..."
4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The buds of the frogbit which have passed the winter there become spongy, ...
It is observed, too, that the frogbit is very variable in regard to its ..."
5. The Phytologist: A Botanical Journal edited by Alexander Irvine (1861)
"Here, then, in the frogbit, we have a true bulb, by means of which it increases
... Secondly, the dispersal of the frogbit is ensured by means of the bulbs ..."
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