BRYOPHYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bryophyte mean? 

• BRYOPHYTE (noun)
  The noun BRYOPHYTE has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta

  Familiarity information: BRYOPHYTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRYOPHYTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bryophyte; nonvascular plant

Hypernyms ("bryophyte" is a kind of...):

nonvascular organism (organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bryophyte"):

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)

Holonyms ("bryophyte" 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))