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stonewort


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stonewort  \Stone"wort`\,  n.  (Bot.) 
  Any  plant  of  the  genus  Chara;  --  so  called  because  they  are 
  often  incrusted  with  carbonate  of  lime.  See  {Chara}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stonewort 
  n  :  any  of  various  submerged  aquatic  algae  of  the  genus  Chara 
  having  nodes  with  whorled  filamentlike  branches;  usually 
  encrusted  with  calcium  carbonate  deposits 




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