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Definition of Bryophyta
1. Noun. 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).
Generic synonyms: Division
Group relationships: Kingdom Plantae, Plant Kingdom, Plantae
Member holonyms: Bryophyte, Nonvascular Plant, Moss Family, Moss Genus, Anthoceropsida, Class Anthoceropsida, Bryopsida, Class Bryopsida, Class Musci, Musci, Class Hepaticae, Class Hepaticopsida, Hepaticae, Hepaticopsida
Derivative terms: Bryophytic
Definition of Bryophyta
1. n. pl. See Cryptogamia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bryophyta
Literary usage of Bryophyta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae) by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"... (Bryophyta)-HEPATICAE—MARCHANTIALES THE first division of the ... or Bryophyta,
comprises the three classes, Hepaticae or Liverworts, ..."
2. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"SERIES I. Bryophyta.—The first series includes the Mosses and Liverworts, which
are cellular plants, with complete alternation of generations, ..."
3. An Introduction to Structural Botany by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1904)
"CHAPTER II THE Bryophyta THE step which we are about to take, in passing on to
our next type, carries us across one of the widest gaps in the Vegetable ..."
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