Name of a genus of aquatic acrogenous plants, type of the family Characeæ, having their axis covered with tubes on which calcareous matter is…

plural (singular constr.) A stonewort (genus Chara); a bed of stoneworts.

A book-name for the genus Chara, from the calcareous deposits on the stem; also extended to the N.O. Characeæ.

A member of the Characeae (formerly called the Charophyta), a group of macroscopic mainly freshwater algae marked by whorls of short branches…