MARCHANTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marchantia mean? 

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

1. type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARCHANTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Marchantia; Marchantia

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

moss genus (a genus of mosses)

Meronyms (members of "Marchantia"):

hepatica; Marchantia polymorpha (a common liverwort)

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

family Marchantiaceae; Marchantiaceae (liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli)

 Context examples 

Researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge compared how two distantly related plants – a common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) and a flowering plant, wild tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) – defend themselves against an aggressive pathogen (Phytophthora palmivora).

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)