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Definition of Quillworts
1. quillwort [n] - See also: quillwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quillworts
Literary usage of Quillworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"The quillworts, Isoetes (Fig. 516-519), are very unlike Club Mosses in aspect,
but have been associated with them. They look more like Rushes, ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... including but one genus (Isoetes) of aquatic plants, which are from an inch
to a foot or more in height. Order 34. Isoclines.— The quillworts (Fig. ..."
3. Botany for High Schools by George Francis Atkinson (1910)
"THE quillworts (ISOETES). 519. General characters.— The quillworts are peculiar
Fig. 339. plants. ..."
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