BRYOPHYTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bryophyta mean? 

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

1. 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)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRYOPHYTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bryophyta; division Bryophyta

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

division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

Meronyms (members of "Bryophyta"):

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)

Holonyms ("Bryophyta" is a member of...):

kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)

Derivation:

bryophytic (relating to plants of the division Bryophyta)

 Context examples 

It belongs to the division Bryophyta, which includes liverwort, and moss.

(Non-Vascular Plant, NCI Thesaurus)