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LEMNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lemna mean? 

LEMNA (noun)
  The noun LEMNA has 1 sense:

1. minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single rootplay

  Familiarity information: LEMNA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LEMNA (noun)


Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lemna; Lemna

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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