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Definition of Stoneworts

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.

Meaning of Stoneworts from wikipedia

- algae in the division Charophyta, class Charophyceae, commonly known as stoneworts. Depending on the treatment of the genus Nitellopsis, living (extant)...
- covered with calcium carbonate (CaCO3) deposits and are commonly known as stoneworts. Cyanobacteria have been found growing as epiphytes on the surfaces of...
- algae comprise three major clades: chlorophytes, coleochaetophytes, and stoneworts. Fungi are eukaryotes that digest foods outside their bodies, secreting...
- the green algae, and land plants that emerged within them, including stoneworts. The relationships between plant groups are still being worked out, and...
- green algae (part) and land plants Streptophytinastoneworts and land plants Charalesstoneworts Plantae – land plants (embryophytes) SAR supergroup...
- free-swimming flagellate sperm. Flagellate sperm, however, are found in stoneworts (Charales) and Coleochaetales, orders of parenchymatous charophytes that...
- (formerly called a nucule, a term otherwise referring to the oogonium of stoneworts). In botany, the term "nutlet" can be used to describe a pyrena or pyrene...
- species that can be found in this state are American ginseng, starry stonewort, waterthyme, water chestnut, eastern poison ivy, poison sumac, giant hogweed...
- family of freshwater green algae in the order Charales, commonly known as stoneworts. They are also known as brittleworts or skunkweed, from the fragility...
- beds. Freshwater limestone is typically micritic. Fossils of charophyte (stonewort), a form of freshwater green algae, are characteristic of these environments...