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 

• AWLWORT (noun)

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)