Definition of Pilularia globulifera

1. Noun. European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps.

Exact synonyms: Pillwort
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Fern, Water Fern
Group relationships: Genus Pilularia, Pilularia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilularia Globulifera

Pilgrims
Pilipino
Pill Hill
Pillars of Hercules
Pilosella
Pilosella aurantiaca
Pilosella officinarum
Pilsen
Pilsener
Pilsner
Piltdown hoax
Piltdown man
Piltz
Piltz sign
Pilularia
Pilularia globulifera
Pima
Pimbwe
Pimenta acris
Pimenta dioica
Pimenta officinalis
Pimentón de La Vera
Pimlico
Pimpinella
Pimpinella anisum
Pimpri-Chinchwad
Pinaceae
Pinard
Pinard's manoeuvre
Pinatubo

Literary usage of Pilularia globulifera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Development of the sporangium of pilularia globulifera, all the figures in optical longitudinal section; IV c primary mother-cell of the spores invested by ..."

2. An Analysis of the British Ferns and Their Allies by George William Francis (1851)
"A., frond of pilularia globulifera magnified, showing the vernation, rhizoma, ... pilularia globulifera of all botanists. fia.—EB 521.—Bolt. 40.—Flo. Dan. ..."

3. The Channel Islands by David Thomas Ansted, Robert Gordon Latham (1862)
"PILULARIA globulifera, i. No true club moss has yet been found in any of the ... Jersey possesses a rare pill-wort (pilularia globulifera) to match this ..."

4. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"In the young fruit of pilularia globulifera the commissures of the four delicate cross septa of the divided chambers exhibit very manifest lines of junction ..."

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