duckweed

英语

两种不同浮萍的特写：
分别为 和

词源

来自duck +‎ weed。据说是因常被鸭子或水禽食用而得名。对照中古英语 dokemete (字面意思是“鸭子食物”)。

名词

duckweed (可数 和 不可数，复数 duckweeds 或 duckweed)

1. 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.

衍生词

• common duckweed (Lemna minor, )
• gibbous duckweed ()
• great duckweed, greater duckweed ()
• ivy duckweed ()
• larger duckweed ()
• least duckweed (, )
• lesser duckweed (Lemna minor)
• minute duckweed ()
• star duckweed ()
• tropical duckweed ()
• Valdivia duckweed ()