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BRYOPHYTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bryophytic mean?
• BRYOPHYTIC (adjective)
The adjective BRYOPHYTIC has 1 sense:
1. relating to plants of the division Bryophyta
Familiarity information: BRYOPHYTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to plants of the division Bryophyta
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Pertainym:
bryophyte (any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta)
Derivation:
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))
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