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    CLASS BRYOPSIDA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    True mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnalesplay

    Synonyms:

    Bryopsida; class Bryopsida; class Musci; Musci

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("class Bryopsida" is a kind of...):

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "class Bryopsida"):

    Andreaeales; order Andreaeales (comprises a single genus: Andreaea)

    Bryales; order Bryales (category used in some classification systems for mosses having the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow intercellular space)

    Dicranales; order Dicranales (widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems)

    Eubryales; order Eubryales (mosses with perennial erect gametophores and stems with rows of leaves and drooping capsules)

    order Sphagnales; Sphagnales (coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass)

    Holonyms ("class Bryopsida" 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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