lemna

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgenus Lemna

   Broadermonocot genus

   Part ofLemnaceae

Other forms of lemna

plural

lemnas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lemna

What does lemna mean?

lemna means "minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root".

How many syllables are in lemna?

lemna has 2 syllables: lem-na. The stress falls on "lem".

What is another word for lemna?

Close synonyms include genus Lemna. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lemna a common word?

lemna is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.