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Definition of Limnobium
1. Noun. American frogbit.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Hydrocharidaceae, Family Hydrocharitaceae, Frog's-bit Family, Frogbit Family, Hydrocharidaceae, Hydrocharitaceae
Member holonyms: American Frogbit, Limnodium Spongia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limnobium
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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