| slovo | definícia |
quillwort
(encz) | quillwort, n: |
Quillwort
(gcide) | Quillwort \Quill"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
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.
[1913 Webster] |
quillwort
(wn) | quillwort
n 1: any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having
short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide
except Polynesia |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
quillwort family
(encz) | quillwort family, n: |
quillworts
(encz) | quillworts,šídlatky n: pl. [bio.] rod plavuní Jirka Daněk |
Quillwort
(gcide) | Quillwort \Quill"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
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.
[1913 Webster] |
quillwort family
(wn) | quillwort family
n 1: quillworts; coextensive with the genus Isoetes [syn:
Isoetaceae, family Isoetaceae, quillwort family] |
|