PILULARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pilularia mean? 

• PILULARIA (noun)
  The noun PILULARIA has 1 sense:

1. pillworts

  Familiarity information: PILULARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PILULARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pillworts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pilularia; Pilularia

Hypernyms ("Pilularia" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Pilularia"):

pillwort; Pilularia globulifera (European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps)

Holonyms ("Pilularia" is a member of...):

family Marsileaceae; Marsileaceae (clover ferns)