How to Use duckweed in a Sentence

duckweed

noun

• The gators, though, are the draw, and there are more than 100 lurking in the waters blanketed in lime-green duckweed.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 July 2017
• Water lilies and duckweed turned the water green near the mouth of Monument Brook.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 20 June 2018
• The drama is heightened by the blanket of duckweed that has turned the placid, still water a surreal shade of green.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• And God was not waiting for artists among tupelo gum trees or brackish marsh or duckweed.
  — Zachary Fine, The New York Review of Books, 8 Feb. 2020
• Fish can’t survive there because duckweed depletes the oxygen that aquatic life needs to survive, Hulke said.
  — Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021
• Demmig-Adams and her colleagues are exploring the best possible ways to grow duckweed.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 July 2020
• To make up for any deficiency, dieters are asked to consume what's known as Wolffia globosa, or a byproduct of duckweed, an aquatic plant.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2020
• Duckweed can be used for wastewater treatment, in biofuels, and as a protein-and-mineral-rich feedstock.
  — Hector Argüello Canals, National Geographic, 17 June 2016
• After the use of the chemical diquat, the duckweed turns brown and sinks to the bottom, which can nourish unkilled weeds, effectively making matters worse.
  — Hector Argüello Canals, National Geographic, 17 June 2016
• Scientists have learned that duckweed can produce almost the same amount of protein as soybeans, soak up heavy metals and be revived after months or years in a freezer, Harkess said.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2020
• The sleek design of the lures allow them to be run through all sorts of emergent weeds as well as through mats of duckweed, hyacinth, lily pads and other bassy cover, usually without catching debris.
  — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• Plants include bacopa, elodea, stream moss, duckweed, azolla and ludwigia.
  — Janene Holzberg, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• The tricky thing about growing duckweed (and all plants) in space is getting the conditions just right in order to maximize productivity and nutrient growth.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 July 2020
• Duckweed — so called because ducks eat it — is a flowering aquatic plant that floats on or just below the surface of still bodies of water, while watermeal is the world’s smallest flowering plant.
  — Hector Argüello Canals, National Geographic, 17 June 2016

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024