pillwort

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

pill +‎ wort

Noun

pillwort (plural pillworts)

1. Any plant of the genus Pilularia of minute aquatic ferns with small pill-shaped sporangia.

Synonyms

• peppergrass

Derived terms

• European pillwort

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pillwort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)