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Definition of Hornwort
1. Noun. Any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams.
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
2. Noun. Liverworts with slender hornlike capsules.
Definition of Hornwort
1. n. An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves.
Definition of Hornwort
1. Noun. A bryophyte with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hornwort
1. an aquatic herb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hornwort
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornwort
| hornsnakes hornstone hornstones hornswoggle hornswoggled hornswoggler hornswogglers hornswoggles hornswoggling horntail | horntails hornwork hornworks hornworms hornwort (current term) hornworts hornwrack horoball |
Literary usage of Hornwort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"One or possibly two species, widely distributed in fresh water. i. Ceratophyllum
demersum L. hornwort. (Fig. 1536. ..."
2. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"The hornwort retains its shape and color and also signs of life through the ...
The hornwort is one of the most familiar plants to dwellers about lakes and ..."
3. Wild flowers by Anne Pratt (1853)
"There are, in our streams, two species of hornwort, very similar in their general
appearance. The kind here represented is a very common plant in slow ..."
4. Journal of the Sanitary Institute by Sanitary Institute (Great Britain) (1899)
"The plants look fresh, except the hornwort. The plants available were : — hornwort
... hornwort appears dead. Cara very much faded. May 26th. ..."
5. The flora of Harrow by James Cosmo Melvill (1876)
"E. (hornwort TRIBE.) CERATOPHYLLUM. (hornwort.) 1. C. demersum. L. (Common hornwort.)
Streams and ditches. 6, 7. Harrow Fond, stagnant ponds at ..."
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