quillwort
/k'wɪlwɜ:t/
📖 中文释义
- n. 水韭属
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. 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.