Definition of quillwort Quillwort
quill•wort
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What does quillwort mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: quillworts |
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| quillwort - any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia | ||
| fern ally pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida | ||
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Wiktionary 
- quillwort (Noun)
Any of various simple microphyllous vascular plants, of the family Isoetaceae, that resemble rushes and produce spores.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- quillwort (n.)
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.
Part of speech
🔤- quillwort, noun, singular of quillworts.
