About The Word Quillwort
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Quillwort
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What's The Definition Of Quillwort?
[n] any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia
Synonyms | Synonyms for Quillwort: Related Terms | Find terms related to Quillwort: See Also | fern ally | genus Isoetes | Isoetes Quillwort In Webster's Dictionary \Quill"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
Any plant or species of the genus {Isoetes}, cryptogamous
plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike
leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their
enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen
American species, usually growing in the mud under still,
shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the
leaves.
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