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Stonewort

Stonewort \Stone"wort`\, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.

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stonewort

n. Any of various complex algae of the family ''(taxlink Characeae family noshow=1)'', known for being branched and having enclosed egg cells.

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stonewort

n. any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits

Usage examples of "stonewort".

Nothing grew there but stonewort, which could survive on the brief dew which formed each morning.

How else could her garden bloom in February, when all other yards were nothing more than stonewort and bare dirt?

Lavon tried to approach her, but from some where she produced a flake of stonewort chipped to a nasty point.

Nothing grows but stoneworts and a few hardy plants which are more like machines than living organisms-when I first saw them I knew then the memoir had not lied, and I was almost killed when, in my excitement, I went too close to a clump of them.

Nothing grows but stoneworts and a few hardy plants which are more like machines than living organismswhen I first saw them I knew then the memoir had not lied, and I was almost killed when, in my excitement, I went too close to a clump of them.