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HORNWORT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Liverworts with slender hornlike capsules

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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)

Sense 2

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)

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