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Wolffia

noun

minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond

• Syn: ↑genus Wolffia

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lemnaceae, ↑family Lemnaceae, ↑duckweed family

• Member Meronyms: ↑watermeal

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\\ˈwu̇lfēə, ˈvȯl-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Johann F. Wolff died 1806 German physician and botanist + New Latin -ia

: a genus of widely distributed floating aquatic plants (family Lemnaceae) that are the smallest flowering plants known, consist merely of a minute ovoid or globose leafless thallus producing the flowers from clefts or grooves, and are distinguished from members of the genus Lemna by the one-celled anthers and by the absence of roots

Useful english dictionary. 2012.