Crossword clues for duckweed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duckweed \Duck"weed`\, n. (Bot.) A genus ( Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the subfamily (taxlink Lemnoideae subfamily noshow=1) of the family ''Araceae''.
WordNet
n. any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds
Usage examples of "duckweed".
Andrea watched a goose dive into the water tail-up and then right itself, gulping strands of duckweed with a twitching motion of its head.
She was hungry, but every time she lifted her fork with the spaghetti dangling from it to her mouth, she saw a goose with duckweed dripping from its bill.
The water hyacinths formed an outer ring around the tattered shoreline, their bobbing heads a deeper purple than the water, their foliage the same deep green as the duckweed that grew between them, giving the appearance that the flowers grew on solid ground.
His face gleamed the shade of swamp water when you sweep the duckweed back, and his eyes were calm behind his wire-rimmed spectacles as he gazed out at us.
Then he submerged his head and came up with a mouthful of dripping duckweed and water bistort.
At the turn lay the pond with yellow duckweed and a bent iron railing that divided it to keep the cows from crossing.
Pale-green duckweed covered the surface of the water like a net in whose delicate meshes were caught lotuses.
He drew her farther on to a small pool where duckweeds made a greenness on the water.
In the stagnant waters of our grassy ditches, the flat shells, the humble Planorbes, sometimes no bigger than a duckweed, vie with the Ammonite and the Nautilus in matters of higher geometry.
Duckweed Dugong, affinities of Dung-beetles with deficient tarsi Dyticus Earl, Mr.
Now in a steep slant bitterns, sea swallows, and teals rise from the rushes and duckweed.
Then full creatures: BEE PLANT, BUTTERFLY WEED, CHICK-WEED, DUCKWEED, GOAT GRASS, MONKEY FLOWER, and OYSTER PLANT.
Her clinging gown of lettuce-green was convoluted and scalloped as if it were made of watercress and eel-grass and duckweed, which perhaps it was.
The boat jolts and the lower unit kicks out of the water, the propeller spitting duckweed and muck.
He that would discern the rudimentall stroak of a plant, may behold it in the originall of Duckweed, at the bignesse of a pins point, from convenient water in glasses, wherein a watchfull eye may also discover the puncticular Originals of Periwincles and Gnats.