Quillwort

Quillwort
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 American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves. [1913 Webster]

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  • quillwort — noun Any of various simple microphyllous vascular plants, of the family Isoetaceae, that resemble rushes and produce spores …   Wiktionary

  • quillwort — n. any fernlike marsh plant of the genus Isoetes (Botany) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • quillwort — noun an aquatic plant related to the clubmosses, with a dense rosette of long, slender leaves. [Genus Isoetes.] …   English new terms dictionary

  • quillwort — /ˈkwɪlwɜt/ (say kwilwert) noun any of the aquatic and paludal pteridophytic plants constituting the genus Isoëtes, characterised by clustered, quill like leaves bearing sporangia in their bases …  

  • quillwort — noun any of several spore bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia • Hypernyms: ↑fern ally • Member Holonyms: ↑Isoetes, ↑genus Isoetes …   Useful english dictionary

  • quillwort family — noun quillworts; coextensive with the genus Isoetes • Syn: ↑Isoetaceae, ↑family Isoetaceae • Hypernyms: ↑fern family • Member Holonyms: ↑Isoetales, ↑order Isoetales …   Useful english dictionary

  • Louisiana Quillwort — Taxobox name = Louisiana Quillwort status = G2 status system = TNC status ref = Cite web publisher =NatureServe title = Isoetes louisianensis work = NatureServe Explorer url = http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Isoe… …   Wikipedia

  • Isoëtes — Taxobox name = Quillwort image width = 240px regnum = Plantae divisio = Lycopodiophyta classis = Isoetopsida ordo = Isoetales familia = Isoetaceae genus = Isoetes subdivision ranks = Species subdivision = See text. Isoëtes , commonly known as the …   Wikipedia

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