hornwort

Noun
  1. Any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum;
    Forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams (synset 111722721)
    is a type 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
    belongs to: ceratophyllum, genus ceratophyllum - constituting the family Ceratophyllaceae: hornworts
  2. Liverworts with slender hornlike capsules (synset 111559271)
    is a type 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
    belongs to: anthocerotales, order anthocerotales - hornworts; liverworts having a thalloid gametophyte; in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida

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