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Definition of Hornworts
1. hornwort [n] - See also: hornwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornworts
| hornstone hornstones hornswoggle hornswoggled hornswoggler hornswogglers hornswoggles hornswoggling horntail horntails | hornwork hornworks hornworms hornwort hornworts (current term) hornwrack horoball |
Literary usage of Hornworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"hornworts. The hornworts are apparently very rare plants in Minnesota, but are
known to grow in the vicinity of St. Paul and Minneapolis—in White Bear lake ..."
2. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"... hornworts. Barbs aquatic; with verticillate, dichotomously dissected leaves.
Flower» monoecious, sessile, axillary, minute, with neither corolla nor ..."
3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Indeed, there are many plants in which crossing has essentially disappeared (as
the duckweeds and the hornworts). Nor is there any evidence of deterioration ..."
4. The Place of Industries in Elementary Education by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp (1905)
"hornworts and weeds grew in the pools. Wild peas and beans, stringy-rooted carrots,
rutabagas, and turnips grew in the open spaces on the hillsides. ..."
5. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"... (hornworts) : Aquatic herbs with verti- cillate, divided leaves ; flowers
dioecious ; perianth 0 ; pistil 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; endosperm 0. (Sp. 3. ..."
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