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NONVASCULAR PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonvascular plant mean? 

NONVASCULAR PLANT (noun)
  The noun NONVASCULAR PLANT has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous plants of the division Bryophytaplay

  Familiarity information: NONVASCULAR PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NONVASCULAR PLANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bryophyte; nonvascular plant

Hypernyms ("nonvascular plant" 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 "nonvascular plant"):

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 ("nonvascular plant" 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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