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Quillwort

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Noun

1. quillwort

any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quillwort

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noun
any aquatic tracheophyte plant of the genus Isoetes, with quill-like leaves at the bases of which are spore-producing structures: family Isoetaceae, phylum Lycopodophyta (club mosses, etc)

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Quillwort

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noun
any of an order (Isoetales) of lycopods with short, fleshy stems and tufts of long, hollow, quill-like leaves whose bases contain spore cases

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Quillwort

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n.
Any of several vascular, spore-bearing, aquatic or marsh plants of the genus Isoetes, having quill-like leaves.

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