How To Use Duckweed In A Sentence
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I went to the fountain and saw varieties of water plants like water lilies and duckweed.
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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.
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Other species found during the survey include coontail, fragrant waterlily, American pondweed, duckweed, American frogbit, cattail, soft-stem bulrush, and arrowhead.
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Duckweeds also have the advantage that they may be grown in axenic cultures, reproducing vegetatively.
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Water hyacinths, duckweed, and pondweed are all aquatic monocots.
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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.
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Floaters, such as pondweeds and common duckweed, drift freely on the surface and quickly cover the surface of the plant zone.
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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.
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A thickening soup of duckweed and pondweed stills the surface of the marsh.
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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.
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PetroAlgae is attempting to commercialize an open pond "microcrop" technology (they are working with other small aquatic plants such as duckweed as well as algae.)
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Wild rice could have been found in the deeper waters of the backwater sloughs along with white water lily, American lotus, arrowleaf, duckweeds, and pondweed.
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At the rate these water lettuce heads propagate themselves, they may shortly be declared an invasive weed by the State of Arizona, as has already happened to water hyacinths and duckweed.
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There are also lovely mosses, liverworts, milfoil duckweed and pondweed.
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The duckweeds grow in a prostrate orientation upon the surface of water and rely on the buoyant forces of their environment for support, rather than lignified structures.
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We also have a third pump to move gray water from the underground tank in which it is collected into the greenhab, where it is filtered and processed by duckweed and water hyacinths until it is clean enough to use for flushing the toilet, as mentioned earlier.
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Avoid rampant non-natives species such as Canadian pond weed and rapidly spreading duckweeds and water ferns.
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Wild rice could have been found in the deeper waters of the backwater sloughs along with white water lily, American lotus, arrowleaf, duckweeds, and pondweed.
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These weeds are duckweed and watermeal.
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There are also lovely mosses, liverworts, milfoil duckweed and pondweed.
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Mason netted baby fish (fry), a tadpole, lots and lots of bugs, duckweed, and other things quite fascinating to a six year old.
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They turned out to be some sort of real tiny insects minding their own business in their 2 dimensional world of floating duckweed thalli and surface tension.
The weevil is in the details
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It's good to touch the green, green duckweed of home.
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A simple filter cleans and circulates the water while chayote plants, ginger, and duckweed add oxygen and food.
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To keep the pond healthy, blanketweed and duckweed need to be removed regularly all summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rivers and lakes are filled with small-flowered a kind of duckweed [Lemnaceae] and the lake started to bloom.
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It was concluded by the Environmental Protection Agency in Victoria that the fish kill was caused by excess duckweed in the water, encouraged by high nutrient levels.
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To understand these diagrams it is important to keep in mind that the duckweed plants consists of a cluster of fronds descended from a single mother frond.
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Then he submerged his head and came up with a mouthful of dripping duckweed and water bistort.
The Plains of Passage
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Barely visible above a mat of wind-blown duckweed were the eyes and nostrils of a four-foot alligator.
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Floating plants like water lilies or duckweed block sunlight, preventing algae from thriving.
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The familiar duckweed which covers the surface of a pond consists of a tiny green "thalloid" shoot, one, that is, which shows no distinction of parts -- stem and leaf, and a simple root growing vertically downwards into the water.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Other good kinds are hornwort, water starwort, tape grass, water poppy, milfoil, willow moss, and floating plants like duckweed.
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Water hyacinths, duckweed, and pondweed are all aquatic monocots.
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Now the "capture heavy metals" part does worry me, especially if the intent is to use duckweed saturated with heavy metals to feed livestock intended for meat ...
Apollo's Daughter :: April 13th, 2009
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It sits in a pool of water, and smells of duckweed.
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Suzhou Creek became a hot topic among local residents late last month as vast expanses of green duckweed floated on the water.
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High protein content makes duckweed an important food source for waterfowl.
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Paddy, fish, fruit, dish, duckweed the development of ecosystem.
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Dim lighting and a duckweed covering complete the tank.
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There's some usage of tomatoes, and there is a small water plant called duckweed that's also being used by a company.
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If you hike down the steep, stony path on the opposite side, you come to a small, swimming-pool-size basin of water, covered in a green carpet of duckweed.
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The pond looks slimy and green with duckweed slithering under the big lily leaves.
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But one would need to look quickly to find them before they are lost under a coating of mold thicker than the duckweed on Suzhou Creek.
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If you hike down the steep, stony path on the opposite side, you come to a small, swimming-pool-size basin of water, covered in a green carpet of duckweed.
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Barely visible above a mat of wind-blown duckweed were the eyes and nostrils of a four-foot alligator.
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A thickening soup of duckweed and pondweed stills the surface of the marsh.
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In the open water are watershield, spatterdock, white water lily, and several species of duckweed.
