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Definition of Frogbits
1. frogbit [n] - See also: frogbit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frogbits
Literary usage of Frogbits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"... Pontederia, frogbits, Azolla. Salvinia, Pistia, etc.), in deep still bays,
but especially in lakes and channels communicating with the main river. ..."
2. Highways and Byways in East Anglia by William Alfred Dutt (1901)
"His " frail," as he called the rush basket he carried, contained some frogbits
and two or three kinds of water ..."
3. Norfolk by William Alfred Dutt (1900)
"Many kinds of water crowfoot deck the surface of the dykes with snow-white
blossoms, frogbits display their three-petalled flowers and kidney-shaped leaves, ..."
4. New Improvements of Planting and Gardening: Both Philosophical and Practical by Richard Bradley (1718)
"... Nymphea or Water-Lilly, Pond-Weeds, Water-Ranunculus, the F/amu/a or Spearwort,
and frogbits. ..."
5. Amaryllidaceae: Preceded by an Attempt to Arrange the Monocotyledonous by William Herbert (1837)
"... whereas, I find Bromeliaceae placed by Dr. Lindley between the Irises and the
aquatic frogbits which intervene between them and the other epiphytes. ..."
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