frog-bit

British  

noun

1. a floating aquatic Eurasian plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae , with heart-shaped leaves and white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae

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Example Sentences

Fish and Wildlife Service looked into a proposal by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for dealing with European frog-bit, European water-clover, flowering rush, parrot feather, water hyacinth, water lettuce and other plants that are not native to the state.

From Washington Times

FROG-BIT, in botany, the English name for a small floating herb known botanically as Hydrocharis Morsus-Ranae, a member of the order Hydrocharideae, a family of Monocotyledons.

From Project Gutenberg

In some places the common frog-bit had grown with such luxuriance that it had completely hidden the water, the leaves overlapping each other as if the overcrowded plants were trying to shoulder each other out of the way.

From Project Gutenberg

From below The Frog-bit spreads me its blossoms of snow, And in masses The Willow-herb, the flags, and the grasses, Reeds, rushes, and sedges, Flower and fringe and feather my edges.

From Project Gutenberg