Stonewort

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stonewort \Stone"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
     Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are
     often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See {Chara}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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