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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Duckweed in English is the name of a plant defined with Azolla pinnata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Azolla pinnata var. africana (Desv.) Baker (among others).
2) Duckweed is also identified with Lemna minor It has the synonym Hydrophace minor (L.) Bubani (etc.).
3) Duckweed is also identified with Spirodela polyrhiza It has the synonym Lemna polyrhiza L.) (Greek polys ‘much’ and rhiza ‘root’.
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1865)
· Flora Carniolica (1772)
· Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, Sect. B, Biol. Sci. (1985)
· Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae (1810)
· Journal of Botany (1886)
· Plant Systematics and Evolution (1990)
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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Ends with: Common duckweed, Giant duckweed, Great duckweed, Greater duckweed, Ivy-leaf duckweed, Ivy-leaved duckweed, Large duckweed, Lesser duckweed, Star duckweed, Tropical duckweed.
Full-text: Lesser duckweed, Ivy-leaf duckweed, Great duckweed, Tropical duckweed, Common duckweed, Star duckweed, Greater duckweed, Giant duckweed, Ivy-leaved duckweed, Large duckweed, Ilaippaci, Teppahamse, Caivalam, Patiyam.
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Search found 6 books and stories containing Duckweed; (plurals include: Duckweeds). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
I am Not What I Appear To Be < [April – June, 2000]
Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)
Part 11: Rathanemi and Rājīmatī < [Chapter X - The recovery of draupadī]
Part 7: Birth as Dhūsarī, wife of Dhanya < [Chapter III - Vasudeva’s Marriage with Kanakavatī and her Former Incarnations]
Part 1: Previous incarnations of Sanatkumāra as King Vikramayaśas and of Asitākṣa as Nāgadatta < [Chapter VII - Sanatkumāracakricaritra]
Straight from the Heart (by Acariya Maha Boowa Nanasampanno)
The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Part 2 - The Sandal-Wood Bowl < [Chapter 24 - The Buddha’s Sixth Vassa at Mount Makula]
Visuddhimagga (the pah of purification) (by Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu)
(8) Mindfulness Occupied with the Body < [Chapter VIII - Other Recollections as Meditation Subjects]
A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms (by William Edward Soothill)