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Musci — noun true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales • Syn: ↑Bryopsida, ↑class Bryopsida, ↑class Musci • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
class Bryopsida — noun true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales • Syn: ↑Bryopsida, ↑Musci, ↑class Musci • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Musci — The class of plants that includes the mosses. [L. pl. of muscus, moss] * * * Mus·ci (musґke) [L.] the mosses, a class of lower plants that are cryptogams … Medical dictionary
plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… … Universalium
moss — 1. Any low growing, delicate cryptogamous plant of the class Musci. 2. Popularly, any one of a number of lichens and seaweeds. [A.S. meos] Ceylon m. a red seaweed; a source of agar. club m. SYN: lycopodium. Iceland m. SYN: cetraria. Irish m. SYN … Medical dictionary
Moss — Gerald, U.S. physician, 1931–1973. See M. tube. Melvin L., U.S. oral pathologist, *1923. See Gorlin Chaudhry M. syndrome. * * * moss mȯs n 1) any of a class (Musci) of bryophytic plants having a small leafy often tufted stem bearing sex organs… … Medical dictionary
Moss — For other uses, see Moss (disambiguation). Moss Temporal range: Carboniferous[1] – recent … Wikipedia
Andreaeales — noun comprises a single genus: Andreaea • Syn: ↑order Andreaeales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms: ↑Bryopsida, ↑class Bryopsida, ↑Musci, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Bryales — noun category used in some classification systems for mosses having the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow intercellular space • Syn: ↑order Bryales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms: ↑Bryopsida, ↑class Bryopsida,… … Useful english dictionary
Dicranales — noun widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems • Syn: ↑order Dicranales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms: ↑Bryopsida, ↑class Bryopsida, ↑Musci, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
