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- noun Plural form of
hornwort .
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Examples
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A two meter animal like this would have a hard time surviving on hornworts.
Tetrapods are older than we thought! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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I would think that it would be more of a land-visitor, rather than a land-dweller, as at the time, there were only hornworts, mosses, fungi and the primitive land plants like Rhynia or Homeophyton, and the only other terrestrial animals were semi-microscopic arthropods.
Tetrapods are older than we thought! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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A two meter animal like this would have a hard time surviving on hornworts.
Tetrapods are older than we thought! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Hail to the hornworts: New plant family tree sheds light on evolution of life cycles
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Also very recently, I learned something new about Bryophytes mosses, liverworts, hornworts.
What is a terrestrial animal? AYDIN 2008
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Macroscopic flora include the aquatic angiosperms (flowering plants), pteridophytes (ferns), and bryophytes (mosses, hornworts, and liverworts).
Macrophytes 2007
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The hornworts generate spores inside of a greenish, horn-like stalk, instead.
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Hornworts are similar to mosses, which people are much more fond of verses liverwort or hornworts.
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These hornworts [germinate] exactly from the spores.
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They appear in Switzerland, hornworts tend to be annual in Northern Switzerland including other Central European areas as a result of climate changes.
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