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lemna|ˈlɛmnə|
Also 8–9 erron. lemma.
[a. mod.L. (Linnæus Genera Plantarum (1737) 417) lemna, Gr. λέµνα.]
A genus of aquatic plants; = duckweed.
[1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Lemma..is..the name of a small water plant well known to the antients..confounded by late writers among the duck weed kinds.] 1789G. White Selborne ii. liv. 269 Gold and silver fishes..will also feed on the water-plant called lemna (ducks' meat). 1801M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xxi. 298 ‘This,’ replied Belinda, ‘is what ‘Th'unlearned, duck⁓weed; learned, lemma [sic.], call,’ and it is to be found in any ditch or standing pool.’ 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 490 The Convallarian Vorticella is frequently found on the stalks of the lemma or duckweed. 1967C. D. Sculthorpe Biol. Aquatic Vasc. Plants vii. 204 As a result of its small size and the ease with which it may be cultured..Lemna is eminently suitable for laboratory experiments.
attrib.1882G. F. Armstrong Garland fr. Greece 80 Not hid..under..thick Lethe's lemna-scum. |