Definition of Isoetes

1. Noun. Type and genus of the Isoetaceae and sole extant genus of the order Isoetales.

Exact synonyms: Genus Isoetes
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Isoetaceae, Isoetaceae, Quillwort Family
Member holonyms: Quillwort

Definition of Isoetes

1. a type of plant [n ISOETES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Isoetes

Isle of Wight
Isle of Wighter
Isleib
Isles of Scilly
Islets of Langerhans
Islington
Ismaeli
Ismail
Ismaili
Ismailian
Ismailism
Isobel
Isocrates
Isoetaceae
Isoetales
Isoetes (current term)
Isoko
Isolde
Isole Egadi
Isoptera
Isoptin
Isopyrum
Isopyrum biternatum
Isordil
Isoroku Yamamoto
Isospora belli
Isospora bigemina
Isospora canis
Isospora felis
Isospora rivolta

Literary usage of Isoetes

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

1. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"Transverse sections of the stems of plants of this kindt exactly resemble those of Isoetes setacea. The lower part of the woody mass has three short arms ..."

2. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"Comparison of selaginella and isoetes with the ferns.—On comparing selaginella and isoetes with the ferns, we sec that the sporophyte is, as in the ferns, ..."

3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"Isoetes echinospora Braunii (Durieu) Engelm. in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 676 (1867). ... Isoetes echinospora robusta Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"Notes on Isoetes riparia and Isoetes saccharata. T. CHALKLEY PALMER. DISTRIBUTION.—In the middle states both these species are accounted quite local. ..."

5. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"A. Classification: Isoetes (QUILLWORT) Division III. Pteridophyta. ... Isoetes. Species. (eg, lacustris.} B. Habitat: Some forms grow on the bottom of ponds ..."

6. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Isoetes hieroglyphica AA Eaton, Fern wort Papers io. ... Isoetes echinospora var. Braunii Engelm. in A. Gray, 1864. ..."

7. List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta Growing Without Cultivation in by Botanical Club (1894)
"Isoetes echinospora Braunii (Durieu) Engelm. in A. Gray, Man. ... Isoetes echinospora robusta Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 4: 380 (1882). 111. ..."

8. The British Ferns: Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions, with the Needful ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1861)
"Isoetes Hystrix. Wolsey in Phytol. new ser. r. 5. p. 45 (not of Durieu in Bory, Explor. Scientif. de l'Algerie, pl. 36./. 1 (no description), and of ..."

9. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"Transverse sections of the stems of plants of this kindt exactly resemble those of Isoetes setacea. The lower part of the woody mass has three short arms ..."

10. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"Comparison of selaginella and isoetes with the ferns.—On comparing selaginella and isoetes with the ferns, we sec that the sporophyte is, as in the ferns, ..."

11. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"Isoetes echinospora Braunii (Durieu) Engelm. in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 676 (1867). ... Isoetes echinospora robusta Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. ..."

12. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"Notes on Isoetes riparia and Isoetes saccharata. T. CHALKLEY PALMER. DISTRIBUTION.—In the middle states both these species are accounted quite local. ..."

13. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"A. Classification: Isoetes (QUILLWORT) Division III. Pteridophyta. ... Isoetes. Species. (eg, lacustris.} B. Habitat: Some forms grow on the bottom of ponds ..."

14. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Isoetes hieroglyphica AA Eaton, Fern wort Papers io. ... Isoetes echinospora var. Braunii Engelm. in A. Gray, 1864. ..."

15. List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta Growing Without Cultivation in by Botanical Club (1894)
"Isoetes echinospora Braunii (Durieu) Engelm. in A. Gray, Man. ... Isoetes echinospora robusta Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 4: 380 (1882). 111. ..."

16. The British Ferns: Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions, with the Needful ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1861)
"Isoetes Hystrix. Wolsey in Phytol. new ser. r. 5. p. 45 (not of Durieu in Bory, Explor. Scientif. de l'Algerie, pl. 36./. 1 (no description), and of ..."

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