bry·o·phyte

(brī′ə-fīt′)

Any of numerous photosynthetic, chiefly terrestrial, nonvascular plants that reproduce by spores, including the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. These three groups together formerly made up the division Bryophyta, which is now restricted to the mosses alone.

[New Latin Bryophyta, division name : bryo- + -phyte.]

bry′o·phyt′ic (-fĭt′ĭk) adj.

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bryophyte

(ˈbraɪəˌfaɪt)

(Plants) any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores

[C19: New Latin, from Greek bruon moss + -phyte]

bryophytic adj

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bry•o•phyte

(ˈbraɪ əˌfaɪt)

n.

any of the Bryophyta, a phylum of nonvascular plants comprising the true mosses and liverworts.

[1875–80; < New Latin Bryophyta; see bryo-, -phyte]

bry`o•phyt′ic (-ˈfɪt ɪk) adj.

bry·o·phyte

(brī′ə-fīt′)

A member of a large group of seedless green plants that live on land and lack tissues (known as vascular tissues) that circulate water and dissolved nutrients. Bryophytes include the mosses and liverworts.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

bryophyte - any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta

nonvascular plant

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)

moss - tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants

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

nonvascular organism - organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses

Translations

Moos

bryophyte

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References in periodicals archive

Abundance and diversity patterns of terrestrial bryophyte species in secondary and planted montane forests in the northern portion of the Central cordillera of Colombia.

Composicion y distribucion de hepaticas (Marchantiophyta) en un intervalo altitudinal en la Cordillera Oriental de Colombia

Determinants of stream bryophyte community structure: bringing ecology into conservation.

Bibliografia Botanica Iberica, 2017. Bryophyta

However, the bryophyte extracts demonstrated inhibitory effect against both the gram positive and negative bacteria.

SCREENING OF ANTIMICROBIAL, CYTOTOXIC EFFECTS AND PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS OF THE MOSS AULACOMNIUM ANDROGYNUM (HEDW.) SCHWAGR (BRYOPHYTA)

For every vegetation plot a list of vascular plant and bryophyte species was compiled.

FOREST ECOSYSTEM RECOVERY IN 15-YEAR-OLD HYBRID ASPEN (Populus tremula L. x P. tremuloides Michx.) PLANTATIONS ON A RECLAIMED OIL SHALE QUARRY

(Gigaspermaceae), new to the bryophyte flora of South America.

Novedades sobre la familia Pilotrichaceae para las Yungas de la Argentina

There are currently 557 individual species; one group of vascular plants (a group of six hawkweeds); two lichen communities and one bryophyte assemblage on the Welsh Government's list of 'priority biodiversity species'- section seven of the Environment (Wales) Act.

'As our wildlife is declining so is our connection to nature' In September, the environmental community reacted to the alarming news that one in 14 species in Wales are headed for extinction. It was revealed in a report part authored by the RSPB's Stephen Bladwell, who discusses here how we got to this point and why reconnecting with nature is now more vital than ever

2002.- Bryophyte diversity, microhabitat differentiation, and distribution of life forms in Costa Rican upper montane Quercus forest.

Catalogo de briofitos epifitos de roble {quercus humboldtiv. fagaceae), en el municipio de tipacoque, Boyaca-Colombia

Thus the studies reported by Sinclair and Gibson on bryophyte reproduction, and by Grey and Grey on a rare coral fungus, took place in the species' natural environment, whereas Woodford's paper, on the first use of camera traps, while essentially historical, discusses techniques that have become a regular part of field work.

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Based on the calculated correlation matrices, as related to the samples taken from the six study stations, the obtained results indicate that there is a very significant high correlation between the bryophyte cover and the lichen cover on the phorophyte at the station 2 of Lake Tonga and station 1 of Lake Mellah, r = -1.000 ***, whereby, the more the first increases, the greater the decrease in the second and vice-versa, this observable regardless of the side of the forest sampled.

Corticolous lichen flora on Quercus suber L. in the wetlands of El Kala national park (North-Eastern Algeria)

Most monographs deal either with bryophyte, lichen or algae vegetation.

Descripcion y validacion de sintaxones europeos de la vegetacion dominada por briofitos, liquenes y algas