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Definition of Class musci
1. Noun. True mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales.
Generic synonyms: Class
Group relationships: Bryophyta, Division Bryophyta
Member holonyms: Andreaeales, Order Andreaeales, Bryales, Order Bryales, Dicranales, Order Dicranales, Eubryales, Order Eubryales, Order Sphagnales, Sphagnales
Literary usage of Class musci
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"... class musci. CLASS HEPATICAE. LIVERWORTS 426. In the lower Liverworts the
gametophyte is a flat, expanded thallus of parenchymatous tissue, ..."
2. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"The following is a synopsis of the system of classification followed in this
work: class musci ORDER I. ..."
3. China: An Interpretation by James Whitford Bashford (1919)
"... the mulberry has been cultivated since the earliest times (Standard Dictionary).
MOSSES.—class musci—Ceramium rubrum (81.270). ..."
4. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1898)
"... been deemed better to record the collection of such material only as has been
gathered for the preparation of this paper. Group BRYOPHYTA. class musci. ..."
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