duckweed

How To Use duckweed In A Sentence

• I went to the fountain and saw varieties of water plants like water lilies and duckweed.
• This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce. News from The Scientist
• Other species found during the survey include coontail, fragrant waterlily, American pondweed, duckweed, American frogbit, cattail, soft-stem bulrush, and arrowhead.
• Duckweeds also have the advantage that they may be grown in axenic cultures, reproducing vegetatively.
• Water hyacinths, duckweed, and pondweed are all aquatic monocots.
• Silvery fish with scales like pearls and translucent blue fins like moonlight swam through the clear, cold water, hiding underneath duckweed and water-flowers floating above the pond's surface.
• Floaters, such as pondweeds and common duckweed, drift freely on the surface and quickly cover the surface of the plant zone.
• I loved every moment he was around and would stand at his side as he cleaned the pond of its green duckweed, tugged dandelions from the lawn and snipped the dead heads off Dad's prized dahlias.
• A thickening soup of duckweed and pondweed stills the surface of the marsh.
• A sure sign that water is contaminated is "the parasitic plant known as the lemna gibba or green water lentil" -- it's a kind of duckweed -- "which grows in aquatic environments into which urban runoff is continually discharged. Anneli Rufus: Lake Titicaca Is Full of Sh*t