noun
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)
• Syn: ↑Bryophyta
• Derivationally related forms: ↑bryophytic (for: ↑Bryophyta)
• Hypernyms: ↑division
• Member Holonyms: ↑Plantae, ↑kingdom Plantae, ↑plant kingdom
• Member Meronyms:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.