HORNWORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hornwort mean? 

• HORNWORT (noun)
  The noun HORNWORT has 2 senses:

1. any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams

2. liverworts with slender hornlike capsules

  Familiarity information: HORNWORT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORNWORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hornwort" is a kind of...):

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)

Holonyms ("hornwort" is a member of...):

Ceratophyllum; genus Ceratophyllum (constituting the family Ceratophyllaceae: hornworts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Liverworts with slender hornlike capsules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hornwort" is a kind of...):

hepatic; liverwort (any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses)

Holonyms ("hornwort" is a member of...):

Anthocerotales; order Anthocerotales (hornworts; liverworts having a thalloid gametophyte; in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida)