pondpine (pondpin)

See pinel. pond-scum (pond's kum), n. Any free-floating fresh-water alga that forms a seum on water; specifically, one of the order Zygnemacex. pond-shrimp (pond's hrimp), п. A phyllopod crustacean of the family Branchipodidæ. See cut under fairy - shrimp. pond-snail (pond'snāl), n. A gastropod of the family Limnæidæ, and especially of the genus Limnæa, as L. stagnalis. These have spiral turreted shells. Members of Ancylus and related genera are similar pond-snails. Those whose shells are a flat or discoid spiral belong to Plan orb is and related genera. The left handed or sinistral pond-snails are of a different family, Physidæ. Members of a third family, Paludinidæ, are also called pond - snails. See the technical names, and cuts under Limnæa, Limnæidæ, Paludina, Physa, and Planor bis. Also called mud - snail. 4616 is a species found floating or wholly immersed in ponds and ditches in most parts of the world. - Cape pondweed, a desirable aquarium plant from the Cape of Good Hope, Apo no get on dis tachyon of the Naiadaceæ. It puts forth fragrant flowers with pure-white bracts in the midst of bright-green floating leaves. Compare Ouvirandra. Choke-pondweed, a fresh-water plant, Elodea ( Ana char is) Can a dens is (A. Als in a strum ), introduced into Eu rope from North America, and in both continents so thriving as often to obstruct canal navigation. [Eng.]Horned pondweed, a slender submerged plant, Zan nichellia palustris, widely distributed over the world: so called from the beaked nutlets of the fruit. - Ta el pondweed. Same as ditch - gra . ponel (pon), n. [Formerly also paune; The bread in gentlemen's houses is generally made of wheat, but some rather choose the pone , which is the bread made of Indian meal, not so called from the Latin pan is, but from the Indian name oppone. Beverley, Virginia, iv. 72. 2. A loaf or cake of such bread. Holding a pone of corn bread in one hand, the half of a roasted chicken in the other. W. Baker, New Timothy, p. 74. Pontederia Shantung, from cocoons of a wild silkworm ( At. tacus pernyi ) which feeds on a scrub-oak. The finer kinds, bleached, dyed, or figured after importation, are known in the trade as China silks.