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Definition of Pillwort

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

Definition of Pillwort

1. n. Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass.

Definition of Pillwort

1. Noun. (botany) Any plant of the genus ''Pilularia''; a minute aquatic cryptogram with small pill-shaped fruit. ¹

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Definition of Pillwort

1. a water-fern [n -S]

Medical Definition of Pillwort

1. Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; sometimes called peppergrass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Pillwort

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

1. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"The pillwort. Transverse section of stem, stained logwood. Plate x 149. No. 23 (pp. ... The pillwort. Transverse No. 25 (pp. 177-84.)—The Thyroid Body. ..."

2. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"371, 372 Pilularia globulifera, or pillwort, structure and habitat of, i. 371 Pilularia minuta, structure of, i. 371 Pinna, structure of the shell of, ii. ..."

3. An Analysis of the British Ferns and Their Allies by George William Francis (1851)
"pillwort. (From pilula, a little pill; from the shape of its seed-vessels.) A., frond of Pilularia globulifera magnified, showing the vernation, rhizoma, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1901)
"Pilularia globulifera L. pillwort. Census 5— East 2, Centre 1, West 2. 1 Kerry 8. Killarney '89— Scully. 16 Galw. "W. Glendalough '95— PL Mask— 545. ..."

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