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BRYOPHYTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida)
Synonyms:
Bryophyta; division Bryophyta
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Bryophyta" is a kind of...):
division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)
Meronyms (members of "Bryophyta"):
bryophyte; nonvascular plant (any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta)
moss family (a family of mosses)
moss genus (a genus of mosses)
Anthoceropsida; class Anthoceropsida (hornworts: in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida)
Bryopsida; class Bryopsida; class Musci; Musci (true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales)
class Hepaticae; class Hepaticopsida; Hepaticae; Hepaticopsida (liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales)
Holonyms ("Bryophyta" is a member of...):
kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)
Derivation:
bryophytic (relating to plants of the division Bryophyta)
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