moss_family (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *moss family*:
NOUN	plant	moss family	a family of mosses

English > *moss family*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	A family of mosses.
Member of	Bryophyta, division Bryophyta	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
Narrower	Anthocerotaceae, family Anthocerotaceae	hornworts
	Bryaceae, family Bryaceae	A family of acrocarpous mosses
	Dicranaceae, family Dicranaceae	mosses having costate leaves and long-stalked capsules with cleft peristome
	Jungermanniaceae, family Jungermanniaceae	Comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales
	Marchantiaceae, family Marchantiaceae	liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli
	Mniaceae, family Mniaceae	family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface
	Sphaerocarpaceae, family Sphaerocarpaceae	liverworts with bilaterally symmetrical gametophytes
Broader	family	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
Spanish	musgos
Catalan	molses

HyperDic: moss_family