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 

• QUILLWORT (noun)

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)