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Definition: Duckweed |
DuckweedNoun1. Any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "duckweed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Duckweed A weed which floats on the surface of stagnant water and forms a harbour for insects which ducks feed on. Its Latin name is "Lemna;" Greek, limne (a stagnant pool). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Duckweed |
| English words defined with "duckweed": Duck's-meat. (references) |
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| "Duckweed" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Duckweed" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "duckweed": common duckweed ♦ duckweed family ♦ great duckweed ♦ lesser duckweed. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "duckweed": star-duckweed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
duckweed | 116 |
duckweed control | 11 |
duckweed picture | 2 |
kill duckweed | 2 |
duckweed plant | 2 |
duckweed treatment | 2 |
duckweed information | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "duckweed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الطحلب البطي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | 'одна Леща. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 苹 , 萍 , 浮萍. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | liden andemad (common duckweed, common waterlens), korsandemad (ivy-leaved duckweed, US star duckweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kroos, eendekroos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vesilinssi (rootless duckweed), ristilimaska (ivy-leaved duckweed, US star duckweed), pikkulimaska (common duckweed, common waterlens), isolimaska (giant duckweed, greater durkweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Lentille D'eau (giant duckweed, greater durkweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | kroas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dreifurchige Wasserlinse (ivy-leaved duckweed, US star duckweed), wurzellose Wolffie (rootless duckweed), vielwurzelige Teichlinse (giant duckweed, greater durkweed), untergetauchte Wasserlinse (ivy-leaved duckweed, US star duckweed), kleine Wasserlinse (common duckweed, common waterlens), gemeine Zwerglinse (rootless duckweed), Entenflott (common duckweed, common waterlens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπιροδέλλα η πολύρριζη (giant duckweed, greater durkweed), βολφία η άρριζη (rootless duckweed), λέμνα η ελαχίστη (common duckweed, common waterlens), λέμνα η τρισχιδής (ivy-leaved duckweed, US star duckweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Békalencse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Lemna. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 藻 (algae, seaweed), '萍 , '浮草 , 浮き草 (a floating weed, precarious), 無し草 (rootless person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねなしぐさ (rootless person), うきくさ (a floating weed, precarious), あおうきくさ, も (algae, ancient skirt, copy, imitate, mourning, seaweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gleiy hunnag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uckweedday lentilha-d'água (duck's meat). (various references) Lintiţã. (various references) яска. (various references) sočivica. (various references) Lenteja De Agua. (various references) Andmat (duck's meat). (various references) จอกแหน. (various references) яска. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Lemna arrhiza L., Lemna minor L., Lemna trisulca L., Spirodela polyrhiza Schleid., Wolffia arrhiza Wimm.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "duckweed": duckweeds. (additional references) | |
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"Duckweed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dickweed, dickwit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "duckweed" (pronounced du"kwē'd) |
| 4 | -k w ē' d | milkweed, pokeweed. |
| 3 | -w ē' d | fireweed, ragweed, seaweed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-e-k-u-w" | |
-1 letter: cudweed. | |
-2 letters: decked, deduce, deuced, ducked, educed. | |
-3 letters: ceded, deked, deuce, dewed, duked, educe. | |
-4 letters: cede, cued, cuke, deck, deed, deke, duce, duck, dude, duke, eked, weed, week. | |
-5 letters: cee, cud, cue, dee, dew, dud, due, ecu, eke, ewe, kue, uke, wed, wee, wud. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-e-k-u-w" | |
+1 letter: duckweeds. | |
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