MOSS FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moss family mean? 

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

1. a family of mosses

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOSS FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of mosses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

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

Anthocerotaceae; family Anthocerotaceae (hornworts)

Dicranaceae; family Dicranaceae (mosses having costate leaves and long-stalked capsules with cleft peristome)

Bryaceae; family Bryaceae (a family of acrocarpous mosses)

family Mniaceae; Mniaceae (family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae)

family Jungermanniaceae; Jungermanniaceae (comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales)

family Marchantiaceae; Marchantiaceae (liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli)

family Sphaerocarpaceae; Sphaerocarpaceae (liverworts with bilaterally symmetrical gametophytes; sometimes placed in the order Jungermanniales)

Holonyms ("moss family" 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))