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quillwort
quillwort
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kwil
-wurt
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-wawrt
]
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quillwort,
common name for several species of the plant genus
Isoetes,
which grow in ponds, slow streams, and swampy places. See
Lycopodiophyta
.
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Quillwort
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Isoëtes
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