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Definition of Quillwort

1. Noun. Any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia.

Definition of Quillwort

1. n. Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.

Definition of Quillwort

1. Noun. Any of various simple microphyllous vascular plants, of the family Isoetaceae, that resemble rushes and produce spores. ¹

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Definition of Quillwort

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Medical Definition of Quillwort

1. Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Quillwort

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"... microspores dark brown, 22-35/i long, densely reticulate and usually slightly papillose. [Vol. i: P- 47-] 5b. Isoetes Eatoni Dodge. Eaton's quillwort. ..."

2. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
"ISOETES L. quillwort. Submerged or rarely emersed in very dry seasons; leaves quadrangular, without peripheral bast-bundles. ..."

3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Isoetes engelmannii x riparia quillwort Herbaceous perennial, rooted submergent aquatic Shallow water, shorelines of reservoirs. ..."

4. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Isoetes muricata Durieu FW Isoetes engelmannii A.Braun Engelmann's quillwort Herbaceous perennial, rooted submergent aquatic Shallow water of lakes, ponds, ..."

5. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"E Under W. quillwort Family. ISOETES L. 99. L. ^ echinospora Braunii (Durieu) ... Braun's quillwort. Gray's Manual. 100. L. lacustris L. Lake quillwort. ..."

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