duckweed
英語 编辑
詞源 编辑
來自duck + weed。據說是因常被鴨子或水禽食用而得名。對照中古英語 dokemete (字面意思為“鴨子食物”)。
名詞 编辑
duckweed (可數 和 不可數,複數 duckweeds 或 duckweed)
- 浮萍
- 1909, H. G. Wells, The Beautiful Suit
- But his face was a face of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.
- 1909, H. G. Wells, The Beautiful Suit
衍生詞 编辑
- common duckweed (Lemna minor, Spirodela polyrhiza)
- gibbous duckweed (Lemna gibba)
- great duckweed, greater duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza)
- ivy duckweed (Lemna trisulca)
- larger duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza)
- least duckweed (Lemna minuta, Lemna aequinoctialis)
- lesser duckweed (Lemna minor)
- minute duckweed (Lemna perpusilla)
- star duckweed (Lemna trisulca)
- tropical duckweed (Pistia stratiotes)
- Valdivia duckweed (Lemna valdiviana)