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AWLWORT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does awlwort mean?
• AWLWORT (noun)
The noun AWLWORT has 1 sense:
1. small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal
Familiarity information: AWLWORT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
awlwort; Subularia aquatica
Hypernyms ("awlwort" is a kind of...):
aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)
Holonyms ("awlwort" is a member of...):
genus Subularia; Subularia (small genus of herbs of north temperate regions and mountains of tropical Africa)
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