单词 | duckweed |
释义 | duckweedn. The common name for plants of the genus Lemna, which float on still water, so as to cover the surface like a green carpet. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies endemetea1387 duckweedc1440 frog's foot1526 greens1526 duck's meat1538 water lentil1548 grain1578 fen lentil1601 Pistia1754 lemna1789 lentil-dew1800 water lettuce1847 Jenny Greenteeth1852 creed1880 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 125/2 Dockewede, padella (P. paradilla). 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Lenteja de agua Duck weede, Lens palustris. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §567 The Water also doth send forth Plants, that have no Roots fixed in the Bottome..Such is that we call Duck-Weed. 1745 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 418/1 Go to a ditch where there is a quantity of duckweed. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 32 Stagnant ditches and ponds covered with duckweed. Derivatives ˈduckweedy adj. full of duckweed. ΚΠ 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 530/2 The little green duckweedy moat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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