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CLASS BRYOPSIDA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
True mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
Synonyms:
Bryopsida; class Bryopsida; class Musci; Musci
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Bryopsida" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class Bryopsida"):
Andreaeales; order Andreaeales (comprises a single genus: Andreaea)
Bryales; order Bryales (category used in some classification systems for mosses having the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow intercellular space)
Dicranales; order Dicranales (widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems)
Eubryales; order Eubryales (mosses with perennial erect gametophores and stems with rows of leaves and drooping capsules)
order Sphagnales; Sphagnales (coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass)
Holonyms ("class Bryopsida" 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))
