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Definition of Awlwort
1. Noun. Small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal.
Group relationships: Genus Subularia, Subularia
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
Definition of Awlwort
1. n. A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves.
Definition of Awlwort
1. Noun. A plant, ''Subularia aquatica'', with awl-shaped leaves. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Awlwort
1. an aquatic plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Awlwort
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Awlwort
Literary usage of Awlwort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota, Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular by Warren Upham (1884)
"S. aquatica, L. awlwort. Found in about three feet of water, on sandy bottom in
Vermilion bay, on Eagle lake, Canadian Pacific railway, Manitoba, ..."
2. Transactions by Stirling Natural History and Archaeological Society, American philosophical society (1898)
"... very few plants of which were observed, and none of them in the Glen or about
Ben Lui. The awlwort—Subularia aquatica, and the Pipe-wort—Eriocaulon ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"awlwort. Pod small, ovoid, slightly compressed contrary to the partition : valves
convex, 1-nerved. Seeds several, not winged: cotyledons incumbent. ..."
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