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单词 lemna
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lemnan.

/ˈlɛmnə/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s irregular lemma.
Etymology: < modern Latin (Linnæus Genera Plantarum (1737) 417) lemna, Greek λέμνα.
A genus of aquatic plants; = duckweed n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Lemma..is..the name of a small water plant well known to the antients..confounded by late writers among the duck weed kinds.]
1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 270 Gold and silver fishes..will also feed on the water-plant called lemna (duck's meat).
1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xxi. 298 ‘This,’ replied Belinda, ‘is what “Th'unlearned, duckweed; learned, lemma [sic.], call,” and it is to be found in any ditch or standing pool.’
1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 490 The Convallarian Vorticella is frequently found on the stalks of the lemma or duckweed.
1967 C. 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.
attributive.1882 G. F. Armstrong Garland from Greece 80 Not hid..under..thick Lethe's lemna-scum.
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