| / English Dictionary |
GENUS SPHAGNUM
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Sphagnum" is a kind of...):
moss genus (a genus of mosses)
Meronyms (members of "genus Sphagnum"):
bog moss; peat moss; sphagnum; sphagnum moss (any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat)
Holonyms ("genus Sphagnum" is a member of...):
order Sphagnales; Sphagnales (coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
