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| Noun | 1. |  moss family - a family of mosses family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family" 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) Anthocerotaceae, family Anthocerotaceae - hornworts Dicranaceae, family Dicranaceae - mosses having costate leaves and long-stalked capsules with cleft peristome Bryaceae, family Bryaceae - a family of acrocarpous mosses family Mniaceae, Mniaceae - family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae family Jungermanniaceae, Jungermanniaceae - comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales family Marchantiaceae, Marchantiaceae - liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli family Sphaerocarpaceae, Sphaerocarpaceae - liverworts with bilaterally symmetrical gametophytes; sometimes placed in the order Jungermanniales |
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