Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several submerged plants of the genus Ceratophyllum, forming branched masses in quiet water and having finely dissected, whorled leaves and minute unisexual flowers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum, the single species of which, C. demersum, is common in ponds and slow streams in most parts of the world. See cut under Ceratophyllaceæ.
Wiktionary
- n. A bryophyte with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves.
WordNet 3.0
- n. liverworts with slender hornlike capsules
- n. any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams
Etymologies
- From the apearance of the branched stems.
Examples
“Even so, I bought the hornwort and three white clouds and went home.”
“Other good kinds are hornwort, water starwort, tape grass, water poppy, milfoil, willow moss, and floating plants like duckweed.”
“In quiet fresh-water streams, and especially in ponds, there are _Myriophyllums_ (or water-milfoil), _Ceratophyllums_ (or hornwort), the aquatic”
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9
“Grass, milfoil, water crowfoot, hornwort, starwort, horsetail, and a dozen other delicate plants, form one tangled forest, denser than those of the Amazon, and more densely peopled likewise.”
“In B we find remains of some of the same plants which were enumerated as common in the ancient lignite in 3 prime, such as the yellow water-lily and hornwort, together with some freshwater shells which occur in the same fluvio-marine series 3 prime.”
“Weed fragments were found by NIWA staff in March last year and said they were likely to have arrived on a vessel used in nearby hornwort-infested lakes.”
“In some anthoceros, the hornwort presents pores in the capsule walls or lacks them.”
“In a hornwort the sporophytes are erect and needle-like.”
“Anthocerotales by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Survey of hornwort populations in selected arable fields in the Swiss Plateau Irene Bisang, Luc Lienhard und Ariel Bergamini, unknown publisher, July 2008.”
“The hornwort plant, is very distinctive and similar to many other bryophyte plants in the way they reproduce.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hornwort’.
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Worts and all
I have in mind the worts associated with a green thumb rather than a green beer - but as you can see by the name, I'll accept anything you have to offer.
butterwort, spiderwort, quillwort, woundwort, nipplewort, bellwort, liverwort, milkwort, water pennywort, navelwort, toothwort, wort and 116 more...
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The Organism Orchestra
List of organism names, common or scientific, with a musical instrument as part of the name, such as banjofish, or words and phrases such as birdsong or dawn chorus that suggest music produced by a...
banjofish, birdsong, dawn chorus, fiddler crab, piano fangblenny, trumpeter swan, banjo catfish, harp seal, songbird, guitarfish, cornetfish, flutefish and 40 more...
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The Worts
Maybe I'm just hallucinating that there isn't a list for this botanical category yet...
mugwort, starwort, stitchwort, woundwort, pondwort, sweetwort, liverwort, spleenwort, toothwort, lungwort, adderwort, worrywort and 9 more...
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