Pipewort

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pipewort \Pipe"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
     Any plant of a genus ({Eriocaulon}) of aquatic or marsh herbs
     with soft grass-like leaves.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pipewort
       n : 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 [syn: {Eriocaulon
           aquaticum}]