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hornwort.

Any of certain bryophytes, of phylum Anthocerotophyta, with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Any of certain bryophytes, of phylum Anthocerotophyta, with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn.

  2. An aquatic flowering plant in the genus Ceratophyllum

  3. Vernal grasses (Anthoxanthum spp.).

Where this word comes from

From horn + wort (“plant”), from the fact that the spores are produced in slender horn-shaped structures.

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