ANTHOCEROPSIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anthoceropsida mean? 

• ANTHOCEROPSIDA (noun)
  The noun ANTHOCEROPSIDA has 1 sense:

1. hornworts: in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida

  Familiarity information: ANTHOCEROPSIDA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTHOCEROPSIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hornworts: in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Anthoceropsida; class Anthoceropsida

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Anthoceropsida"):

Anthocerotales; order Anthocerotales (hornworts; liverworts having a thalloid gametophyte; in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida)

Anthocerotaceae; family Anthocerotaceae (hornworts)

Holonyms ("Anthoceropsida" 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))