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BRYOPHYTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bryophytic mean? 

BRYOPHYTIC (adjective)
  The adjective BRYOPHYTIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to plants of the division Bryophytaplay

  Familiarity information: BRYOPHYTIC used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BRYOPHYTIC (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to plants of the division Bryophyta

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Pertainym:

bryophyte (any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta)

Derivation:

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))


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