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: ↑Bryophyta, ↑division Bryophyta

• Member Meronyms:

↑Andreaeales, ↑order Andreaeales, ↑Bryales, ↑order Bryales, ↑Dicranales, ↑order Dicranales, ↑Eubryales, ↑order Eubryales, ↑Sphagnales, ↑order Sphagnales

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\\ˈməˌsī\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from plural of Latin muscus moss — more at moss

: a class of Bryophyta comprising the mosses and being characterized by a well-developed leafy gametophyte that arises by budding from a protonema and bears sex organs among the leaves at its tip and by a sporophyte that develops from the fertilized egg, remains attached to the tip of the gametophyte, and is a naked usually stalked and operculate capsule in which asexual spores are borne — see andreaealis, bryales, sphagnales; compare eubryales, hepaticae

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Musci /musˈī/

plural noun

Mosses, one of the two great divisions of the Bryophyta, the other being the Hepaticae or liverworts

ORIGIN: L muscus moss

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musˈcoid /-koid/ or musˈcose adjective

Mosslike

muscology /-kolˈə-ji/ noun

Bryology