musci

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musci - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Musci \Mus"ci\, n. pl. [L. muscus moss.] (Bot.)
     An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See
     Moss, and Cryptogamia.
     [1913 Webster]

musci - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Musci
      n 1: true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid
           gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales;
           Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales [syn: Bryopsida, class Bryopsida
           , Musci, class Musci]