There she stood upon the bank a dripping object, her nice dress all coated with duckweed and green slime.
Their faces would have made a study for a comic artist, especially Diana's, with smears of duckweed on her cheeks, and her moist hair hanging over her shoulders.
Marsilea, from which the order takes its name, is a native of Italy and other parts of the south of Europe, where it grows in the same manner as Duckweed does with us.
Ludwig has seen creatures, which run on the surface of the water, carry away duckweed pollen.
We may also imagine the duckweed reproving the pine for his extravagance in the matter of pollen production.
Duckweed is also habitat for invertebrates in the diet (Grice and Rogers 1965).
Years ago a Portuguese expedition is said, however, to have attempted the ascent, but to have abandoned it on account of the impenetrable duckweed (Pistia stratiotes.
Out of this lagoon, and by this stream, the chief part of the duckweed of the Shire flows.
There is more duckweed than anything else, and sometimes it is like a green carpet floating on the water.
So the saint summoned all the serpents to the abbey and, standing on the abbey steps, she turned them into stone, and as they stiffened they coiled up in flat circles like the little snails we find among the duckweed stems.
The duckweed snails are fine things for keeping water clear and pure, and the Imp and the Elf always have a few of them in their aquarium to prevent the water from growing green and stagnant and unhealthy.
He wants a pond or a muddy brook, and plenty of duckweed to hide under.
We went straight to the edge of the pond and began pulling some of the green duckweed out on the banks.
Once we did catch two of the brown lady newts, and the Imp fell splosh into the duckweed just as he was reaching out trying to catch a he.
As soon as we had plenty of duckweed and plenty of snails, we went on over the fields to the beck.
The duckweedin the pond is stirred by other things besides frogs, as I have told you already.
Here long, there short, afloat the duckweed lies; But caught at last, we seize the longed-for prize.
Ours now, the duckweed from the stream we bear, And cook to use with other viands rare.
Our piece of water was simply a dirty duck-pond, in which no large plants were growing, and which did not even exhibit the little disks of duckweed that are common to such situations.
Nipper Donnan, somewhat appeased by the appearance of Nosie Cuthbertson as he scrambled up the bank, with the green scum of duckweed clinging all over him.
From the sluggish water at the side, iris and bog-bean stood nobly up, and white-lilies floated on the still surface in lordly pride among the humbler wrack and scum of duckweed and water buttercup.
I hope we havenʼt spilt the sermon, though, or got any duckweed down it.
Among these was LIU LING, a hard drinker, who declared that to a drunken man "the affairs of this world appear but as so much duckweed on a river.
I will be like the hermit on the hill, Like duckweed gathered on the stream,[27] And when emotions crowd upon me, I will leave them to the harmonies of heaven.
One of the streams, the Lonzua, drives a smooth body of water into the Lake fifty yards broad and ten fathoms deep, bearing on its surface duckweed and grassy islands.
Waterlilies and duckweed are not the chief part of this floating mass.
As the otter, inquisitively following the line of the scent, came to the ponds, she heard the croaking of countless frogs hidden in the duckweed that lay over the entire surface of the water.
The supplies in the granaries were, however, hardly needed: the winter was exceptionally mild, and the voles were generally able to obtain duckweed and watercress for food.
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 the cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.
And next morning they found him dead with his neck broken in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond.
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.
And next morning they found him dead, with his neck broken, in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody, and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duckweed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
