Bryophyta

Bry`oph´y`ta

n. pl.

1.

See Cryptogamia.

Thesaurus

Noun

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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) division Bryophyta division - (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom, Plantae - (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants 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