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Meanings of duckweed in English

Russian
ряска
Portuguese
lemna
Spanish
lenticularia
Catalan
lemna
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Genus of plants.

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ряска
Usage of duckweed in English
1
Behind them was a broad ring of stagnant water covered with duckweed.
Combed Out
2
Perhaps duckweed's crowning glory could be as a valuable high-protein food.
The Guardian
3
Many of the craters half-filled with water already had duckweed growing.
Fanny Goes to War
4
The mouse, the yeast and the duckweed were, relatively speaking, very closely related.
Wired
5
They were just as closely related to the mouse, the yeast and the duckweed.
Wired
6
With such poor light, I couldn't see much: only a few strands of duckweed.
The great lover
7
It can "see" and remove unwanted duckweed from cow pastures, boosting production.
The Irish Times
8
She gathers the large duckweed, By the banks of the stream in the southern valley.
The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry / From the Sacred Books of the...
9
A muskrat swam through a layer of duckweed out to a clear slip of deeper water.
Servant of a dark god
10
Among the species Woese and his colleague George Fox studied were a mouse, yeast and duckweed.
Wired
11
This brown and liquid cross was spotted by duckweed, which the swan displaced as he swam.
En Route
12
But duckweed is much more economic to grow.
The Guardian
13
Then he submerged his head and came up with a mouthful of dripping duckweed and water bistort.
The Plains of Passage
14
The marshy pond was choked with duckweed that had to be piled in a cart and taken away.
Table for five
15
Late dragonflies skim over the duckweed.
Number9Dream
16
Except for the absence of white duckweed, it was the same scene, more than a thousand years later.
Enigma of China
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Translations for duckweed
Portuguese
lemna
Catalan
lemna
Duckweed through the time