duckweed

Definitions

Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the family Araceae.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant⟳, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point⟳, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats.”

“But his face⟳ was a face⟳ of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have⟳ understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.”

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