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noun 
  1. A bryophyte with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn.
Etymology: From horn + Old English wort "plant", from the fact that the spores are produced in slender horn-shaped structures.

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