Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any plant of the genus Eriocaulon, or indeed of the order Eriocauleæ or (as formerly written) Eriocaulonaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft grass-like leaves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
aquatic plants of the genus Eriocaulon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers
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Examples
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Rare plants that occur or that have occurred here include heart leaf plantain, estuary beggar ticks, golden club, ovate spikerush, Parker's pipewort, Nuttall's micranthemum, Eaton's burmarigold, false pimpernel, winged monkey flower and swamp lousewort.
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York 2008
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Rare plants include a sedge, wooly lip-fern, Parker's pipewort, slender knotweed, spongy arrowhead, saltmarsh bulrush and pigmyweed.
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York 2008
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There also I have found, in considerable quantities, curious balls, composed apparently of fine grass or roots, of pipewort perhaps, from half an inch to four inches in diameter, and perfectly spherical.
Walden 2004
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There also I have found, in considerable quantities, curious balls, composed apparently of fine grass or roots, of pipewort perhaps, from half an inch to four inches in diameter, and perfectly spherical.
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There also I have found, in considerable quantities, curious balls, composed apparently of fine grass or roots, of pipewort perhaps, from half an inch to four inches in diameter, and perfectly spherical.
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I have found, in considerable quantities, curious balls, composed apparently of fine grass or roots, of pipewort perhaps, from half an inch to four inches in diameter, and perfectly spherical.
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
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