bryophyte

Noun
  1. Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta (synset 111557778)
    is a type of: nonvascular organism - organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses
    subtypes:
    • moss - tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
    • hepatic, liverwort - any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
    belongs to: 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)
    same as: nonvascular plant

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