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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pillwort is a noun meaning "European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps". It carries one recorded sense.
European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pillwort come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.