Word Meanings - QUILLWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Rising
  of Rise
• Water gauge
  A wall or bank to hold water back.
• Tubinares
  A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.
• Water star grass
  An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.
• Underlayer
  One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.
• WATERDEVIL
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
• WATERTUTUYERE
  A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
• Underwing
  One of the posterior wings of an insect.
• Rissole
  A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.
• Water ice
  Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
• Tubule
  A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.
• Water trefoil
  The buck bean.
• Undermeal
  The inferior, or after, part of the day; the afternoon.
• WATERFOX
  The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning. Walton.
• Calle
  A kind of head covering; a caul.
• Water
  The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
• Shapeless
  Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.
• Water lettuce
  A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.
• Underaid
  To aid clandestinely.
• Water wing
  One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.

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