| NOUN | plant | division Bryophyta, 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 |
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| 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). | |
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| Synonym | Bryophyta | |
| Member of | Plantae, kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom | (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants |
| Members | Anthoceropsida, class Anthoceropsida | hornworts |
| Bryopsida, class Bryopsida, Musci, class Musci | true mosses | |
| Hepaticopsida, class Hepaticopsida, Hepaticae, class Hepaticae | liverworts | |
| bryophyte, nonvascular plant | Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta | |
| moss family | A family of mosses | |
| moss genus | A genus of mosses | |
| Broader | division | (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum |
| Spanish | briófitos | |
| Catalan | briòfits | |
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