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pillwort
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pillwort has 1 sense
- pillwort(n = noun.plant) pilularia globulifera - European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps; Array is a kind of aquatic fern, water fern
is a member of genus pilularia, pilularia
CIDE DICTIONARY
pillwort, n.
Any plant of the genus Pilularia ; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pillwort, n. an aquatic fern, Pilularia globulifera, with small globular spore-producing bracts.
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