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QUILLWORT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quillwort mean?
• QUILLWORT (noun)
The noun QUILLWORT has 1 sense:
1. any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia
Familiarity information: QUILLWORT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("quillwort" is a kind of...):
fern ally (pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida)
Holonyms ("quillwort" is a member of...):
genus Isoetes; Isoetes (type and genus of the Isoetaceae and sole extant genus of the order Isoetales)
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