Definition of hornworts Hornworts
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What does hornworts mean?
Wiktionary 
- hornworts (Noun)
Plural of hornwort.
Part of speech
🔤- hornworts, noun, plural of hornwort.
WordNet
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| hornwort - liverworts with slender hornlike capsules | ||
| hepatic, liverwort any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses | ||
| hornwort - any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams | ||
| aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth | ||
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Wiktionary
- hornwort (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.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hornwort (n.)
An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves.
Part of speech
🔤- hornwort, noun, singular of hornworts.
