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MOSS GENUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of mosses
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("moss genus" is a kind of...):
genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moss genus"):
Anthoceros; genus Anthoceros (hornworts)
Andreaea; genus Andreaea (brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits)
Dicranum; genus Dicranum (type genus of Dicranaceae)
Bryum; genus Bryum (type genus of the Bryaceae: mosses distinguished by mostly erect and tufted gametophytes and symmetrical short-necked capsules)
genus Mnium; Mnium (mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger)
genus Sphagnum (a large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water)
genus Marchantia; Marchantia (type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores)
genus Sphaerocarpos; genus Sphaerocarpus; Sphaerocarpos; Sphaerocarpus (type genus of Sphaerocarpaceae; liverworts with small many-lobed usually orbicular thallus)
Holonyms ("moss genus" 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))
