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HEPATICOPSIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hepaticopsida mean? 

HEPATICOPSIDA (noun)
  The noun HEPATICOPSIDA has 1 sense:

1. liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpalesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HEPATICOPSIDA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Hepaticae; class Hepaticopsida; Hepaticae; Hepaticopsida

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Hepaticopsida"):

hepatic; liverwort (any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses)

Jungermanniales; order Jungermanniales (large order of chiefly tropical liverworts)

Marchantiales; order Marchantiales (liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally)

order Sphaerocarpales; Sphaerocarpales (small order sometimes included in the order Jungermanniales)

Holonyms ("Hepaticopsida" 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))


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