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hornwort [hawrn-wurt, -wawrt] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum, found in ponds and slow streams. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of hornwort First recorded in 1795–1805; horn + wort2 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for hornwort Historical Examples of hornwort
It is the Hornwort (Ceratophyllum) gently wriggling or moving from side to side.
G. F. Scott Elliot
British Dictionary definitions for hornwort hornwort noun any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum, forming submerged branching masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams: family Ceratophyllaceae any of a group of bryophytes belonging to the phylum Anthocerophyta, resembling liverworts but with hornlike sporophytes Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 hornwort in Science hornwort [hôrn′wûrt′, -wôrt′] Any of about 100 species of small bryophyte plants belonging to the phylum Anthocerophyta. Unlike liverworts but like mosses, hornwort sporophytes have stomata. The hornwort gametophyte consists of a low thallus, out of which numerous slender, upright sporophytes tipped with sporangia grow. The sporophyte has a meristem that elongates the sporophyte with new growth, a feature that distinguishes the plant from the other bryophytes. The name of the hornworts was suggested by the hornlike appearance of the sporophytes. See more at bryophyte. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
