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duckweed

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duck⋅weed

[duhk-weed]
–noun
any plant of the family Lemnaceae, esp. of the genus Lemna, comprising small aquatic plants that float free on still water.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME dockewede; so called because eaten by ducks
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duck·weed   (dŭk'wēd')   
n.  Any of various small, free-floating, stemless aquatic flowering plants of the genus Lemna, growing in close, often carpetlike colonies on the surface of quiet water.
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