Meaning | Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta. |
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Synonym | bryophyte |
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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 |
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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 |
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moss | tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants |
Broader | nonvascular organism | organisms without vascular tissue |
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Spanish | briofita, briofitas, bryophyta sensu lato |
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