bryophyta

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bryophyta - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bryophyta \Bry*oph"y*ta\, n. pl.
     See Cryptogamia.
     [1913 Webster]

bryophyta - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Bryophyta
      n 1: 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) [syn:
           Bryophyta, division Bryophyta]