MOSS GENUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moss genus mean? 

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

1. a genus of mosses

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOSS GENUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of mosses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

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

Anthoceros; genus Anthoceros (hornworts)

Andreaea; genus Andreaea (brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits)

Dicranum; genus Dicranum (type genus of Dicranaceae)

Bryum; genus Bryum (type genus of the Bryaceae: mosses distinguished by mostly erect and tufted gametophytes and symmetrical short-necked capsules)

genus Mnium; Mnium (mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger)

genus Sphagnum (a large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water)

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

genus Sphaerocarpos; genus Sphaerocarpus; Sphaerocarpos; Sphaerocarpus (type genus of Sphaerocarpaceae; liverworts with small many-lobed usually orbicular thallus)

Holonyms ("moss genus" 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))