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Noun: common wolffia
  1. Smallest flowering plants known; of the Americas
    "Common wolffia appeared as tiny green specks floating on the water"; "Wolffia columbiana appeared as tiny green specks floating on the water";
    - Wolffia columbiana
Noun: Wolffia
  1. Minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond
    - genus Wolffia

Type of: liliopsid genus, monocot genus, watermeal

Part of: duckweed family, family Lemnaceae, Lemnaceae

Encyclopedia: Wolffia