duckweed

English

Close up of two different duckweeds:
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Etymology

duck +‎ weed

Noun

duckweed (countable and uncountable, plural duckweeds or duckweed)

1. Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the subfamily of the family Araceae.
   • 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.

Translations

plant

• Azerbaijani: sugülü
• Bulgarian: водна леща f (vodna lešta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 苹 (zh) (píng), 萍 (zh) (píng), 浮萍 (zh) (fúpíng), 水萍 (zh) (shuǐpíng), 水草 (zh) (shuǐcǎo), 荇菜 (zh) (xìngcài)

• Danish: andemad c
• Dutch: kroos (nl)
• Finnish: limaska (fi)
• French: lentille d’eau (fr) f
• German: Wasserlinse f, Entengrütze f (slang)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἴκμη f (íkmē)

• Hungarian: békalencse (hu)
• Irish: ros lachan m
• Japanese: ウキクサ (ukikusa), 浮草 (うきくさ, ukikusa)
• Korean: 개구리밥 (gaeguribap)
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• Maori: kārearea
• Norman: hèrbe d'pithot f
• Polish: rzęsa (pl) f
• Portuguese: lentilha-d'água f
• Romanian: lintiță (ro) f
• Russian: ря́ска (ru) f (rjáska)
• Serbo-Croatian: okrijek
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: rjasa f

• Spanish: lenteja de agua f
• Thai: แหน (th) (nɛ̌ɛ)
• Vietnamese: bèo (vi)