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HEPATICOPSIDA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Hepaticopsida mean?
• HEPATICOPSIDA (noun)
The noun HEPATICOPSIDA has 1 sense:
1. liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales
Familiarity information: HEPATICOPSIDA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
class Hepaticae; class Hepaticopsida; Hepaticae; Hepaticopsida
Hypernyms ("Hepaticopsida" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Hepaticopsida"):
hepatic; liverwort (any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses)
Jungermanniales; order Jungermanniales (large order of chiefly tropical liverworts)
Marchantiales; order Marchantiales (liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally)
order Sphaerocarpales; Sphaerocarpales (small order sometimes included in the order Jungermanniales)
Holonyms ("Hepaticopsida" 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))
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