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Any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills
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quillwort
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quillwort \Quill"wort`\, n. (Bot.) 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 ...
WordNet
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n. any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of various simple microphyllous vascular plants, of the family ''(taxlink Isoetaceae family noshow=1)'', that resemble rushes and produce spores.