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LEMNA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root
Synonyms:
genus Lemna; Lemna
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Lemna" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Lemna"):
common duckweed; Lemna minor; lesser duckweed (of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia)
Lemna trisulca; star-duckweed (cosmopolitan in temperate regions except North America)
Holonyms ("Lemna" is a member of...):
duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae (family of small free-floating thalloid plants)