different between hornwork vs hornwort

English

horn +? work

hornwork (plural hornworks)

A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.

From horn +? wort (“plant”), from the fact that the spores are produced in slender horn-shaped structures.

hornwort (plural hornworts)

A bryophyte with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn.

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