DUCKWEED FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does duckweed family mean? 

• DUCKWEED FAMILY (noun)
  The noun DUCKWEED FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. family of small free-floating thalloid plants

  Familiarity information: DUCKWEED FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUCKWEED FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Family of small free-floating thalloid plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae

Hypernyms ("duckweed family" is a kind of...):

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "duckweed family"):

duckweed (any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds)

genus Lemna; Lemna (minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root)

genus Spirodela; Spirodela (minute aquatic herbs floating on the water surface consisting of a shiny leaflike frond and 2-21 roots)

genus Wolffia; Wolffia (minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond)

genus Wolffiella; Wolffiella (minute rootless aquatic herbs having flat fronds floating on or below the water surface and bearing 1-2 flowers per frond; America and Africa)

Holonyms ("duckweed family" is a member of...):

Arales; order Arales (Araceae; Lemnaceae)