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    HEPATICAE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpalesplay

    Synonyms:

    class Hepaticae; class Hepaticopsida; Hepaticae; Hepaticopsida

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Hepaticae"):

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

    Jungermanniales; order Jungermanniales (large order of chiefly tropical liverworts)

    Marchantiales; order Marchantiales (liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally)

    order Sphaerocarpales; Sphaerocarpales (small order sometimes included in the order Jungermanniales)

    Holonyms ("Hepaticae" 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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