HyperDic: bryophyte

English > 1 sense of the word bryophyte:
NOUNplantbryophyte, nonvascular plantany of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta
English > bryophyte: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningAny of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta.
Synonymnonvascular plant
Member ofBryophyta, division BryophytaA 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
Narrowerliverwort, hepaticAny of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
mosstiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
Broadernonvascular organismorganisms without vascular tissue
Spanishbriofita, briofitas, bryophyta sensu lato
Adjectivesbryophyticrelating to plants of the division Bryophyta

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