bryophyte (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *bryophyte*:
NOUN	plant	bryophyte, nonvascular plant	any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta

English > *bryophyte*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta.
Synonym	nonvascular plant
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	liverwort, hepatic	Any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
Narrower	moss	tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
Broader	nonvascular organism	organisms without vascular tissue
Spanish	briofita, briofitas, bryophyta sensu lato
Adjectives	bryophytic	relating to plants of the division Bryophyta

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