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Pillwort

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Pillwort
Pillwort Pill"wort`, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Pilularia}; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called {peppergrass}. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

  
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