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/hˈɔːnwɔːt/
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NOUN
- liverworts with slender hornlike capsules
- any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams
How To Use hornwort In A Sentence
- 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. NZ On Screen
- 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. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- Land plants are composed of four monophyletic groups: vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
- Liverworts, hornworts, mosses, clubmosses, resurrection plants, quillworts, horsetails, ferns, cycads, ginkgos, conifers, and flowering plants are all plants.
- 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. Prose Idylls, New and Old
- In a hornwort the sporophytes are erect and needle-like. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- 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
- Most importantly, the phylogenetic analysis results in a topology that places hornworts as a sister group to the vascular plants and mosses as the sister clade to the hornwort-tracheophyte group.
- A widely held view places liverworts as the first branch of the land plant tree, whereas some studies suggest that hornworts are the earliest land plants, with mosses and liverworts jointly forming the second deepest lineage.
- 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. The Antiquity of Man