Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small, submersed plants of the genus Elodea, having narrow, whorled or opposite leaves and small axillary flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
underwater freshwater perennials , of the genusElodea , that havegrasslike leaves ; ditchmoss orpondweed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun submerged freshwater perennials
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I filled it with tap water just before Thanksgiving, let it sit for a few days, then tossed in elodea from the puddle in my backyard.
December skeeters doyle 2008
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We have yet to put together a filter from the variety of pumps and tubes that accumulate in ancient school building, so the tiny critters that hitched a ride on the elodea are still flitting about the tank.
December skeeters doyle 2008
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Late spring I played God and altered the local flora--I bought 3 sprigs of elodea.
Archive 2008-07-01 doyle 2008
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My pond's CO2/O2 ratio bounces daily as the elodea converts carbon dioxide to plant stuff, snapping oxygen atoms off few gazillion water molecules as the sun shines.
Archive 2008-07-01 doyle 2008
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At any rate, the slugs and the flies and and the elodea spent most of their short day doing what most of us are wont to do--grabbing some energy, increasing our likelihood of reproducing, or burrowing until the sun returns.
Archive 2008-11-01 doyle 2008
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Now I keep a sprig of elodea, a fast growing water plant, next to the candle.
Pooped doyle 2008
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So I pull out yards and yards of elodea, and along with it snails and daphnia and copepods and stentorians and paramecia.
Archive 2008-11-01 doyle 2008
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The science is in the elodea a water plant bubbling away on the windowsill when the sun hits it, the Newton's cradle clinking for the 27th time by a curious student.
Archive 2008-08-01 doyle 2008
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My pond's CO2/O2 ratio bounces daily as the elodea converts carbon dioxide to plant stuff, snapping oxygen atoms off few gazillion water molecules as the sun shines.
The Big Idea doyle 2008
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Descent with modification led to this--a clam in a beaker with a strip of elodea, me with a laser pointer and a sometimes functioning SMART Board.
Mr. Clam goes to BHS doyle 2008
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