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    DIVISION BRYOPHYTA

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     I. (noun) 

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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)play

    Synonyms:

    Bryophyta; division Bryophyta

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("division Bryophyta" is a kind of...):

    division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

    Meronyms (members of "division Bryophyta"):

    bryophyte; nonvascular plant (any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta)

    moss family (a family of mosses)

    moss genus (a genus of mosses)

    Anthoceropsida; class Anthoceropsida (hornworts: in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida)

    Bryopsida; class Bryopsida; class Musci; Musci (true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales)

    class Hepaticae; class Hepaticopsida; Hepaticae; Hepaticopsida (liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales)

    Holonyms ("division Bryophyta" is a member of...):

    kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)

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