duckweed
英语
编辑词源
编辑来自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
编辑duckweed (可数 和 不可数,复数 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
衍生词
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)