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Definition of Pillworts
1. pillwort [n] - See also: pillwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pillworts
Literary usage of Pillworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... the inner are filled with innumerable microspores. 495. The pillworts (Marsilia
and Pilularia) are low aquatics, which FiG. 520. ..."
2. The Geological History of Plants by John William Dawson (1888)
"... belonging to the Devonian and Lower Carboniferous periods, and perhaps allied
to Lycopods and pillworts in their organisation and fruit, but specially ..."
3. Some Salient Points in the Science of the Earth by Sir John William Dawson (1894)
"... and structurally allied to the Ferns—such plants as the floating Salvinia,
and the pillworts of our swamps, were vastly abundant, and they may have ..."
4. The Chain of Life in Geological Time: A Sketch of the Origin and Succession by John William Dawson (1885)
"... connecting it with the pillworts, Psilophyton (Fig. 87), though more characteristic
of the Devonian, has been found in the Upper Silurian both in Canada ..."
5. The Fossil Plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian Formations of Canada by Geological Survey of Canada, John William Dawson (1871)
"... belonging to the Devonian and Lower Carboniferous periods, and perhaps allied
to Lycopods and pillworts in their organization and fruit, but specially ..."
6. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1870)
"... club mosses, and pillworts ; cellular cryptogams are mosses, lichens, fungi,
and algae. After slating that the chief plants of the coal formation were ..."
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