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Pipewort

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: Eriocaulon aquaticum.



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"Pipewort" Quotes from Famous Books



... Indian file, in waving lines, corresponding to these marks, rank behind rank, as if the waves had planted them. 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. These wash back and forth in shallow water on a sandy bottom, and are sometimes cast on the shore. They are either solid ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau



Words linked to "Pipewort" :   aquatic plant, Eriocaulon, genus Eriocaulon, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant



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