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    BRYOPHYTE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophytaplay

    Synonyms:

    bryophyte; nonvascular plant

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("bryophyte" is a kind of...):

    nonvascular organism (organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bryophyte"):

    moss (tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants)

    hepatic; liverwort (any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses)

    Holonyms ("bryophyte" is a 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; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida))

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