FAMILY MARCHANTIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Marchantiaceae mean? 

• FAMILY MARCHANTIACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY MARCHANTIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli

  Familiarity information: FAMILY MARCHANTIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY MARCHANTIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Marchantiaceae; Marchantiaceae

Hypernyms ("family Marchantiaceae" is a kind of...):

moss family (a family of mosses)

Meronyms (members of "family Marchantiaceae"):

genus Marchantia; Marchantia (type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores)

Holonyms ("family Marchantiaceae" is a member of...):

Marchantiales; order Marchantiales (liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally)