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Noun: pillwort  'pil,wurt
  1. European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps
    "Pillwort thrived in the shallow edges of the pond";
    - Pilularia globulifera

Derived forms: pillworts

Type of: aquatic fern, water fern

Part of: genus Pilularia, Pilularia

Encyclopedia: Pillwort