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LEMNA

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 I. (noun) 

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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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