HORNWORT
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)
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)
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)
