Crossword clues for bryophyta
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)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bryophyta
Bryophyta \Bry*oph"y*ta\, n. pl. See Cryptogamia.
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Usage examples of "bryophyta".
Bryophyta on the one hand to the Thallophyta and on the other to the Pteridophyta lies even more in the region of speculation, on slender grounds without much hope of decisive evidence.
With regard to the relationship of the Bryophyta and Pteridophyta the article on the latter group should be consulted.
In all plants higher than the Bryophyta the sporophyte becomes an independently rooted plant and is the conspicuous stage in the life-history.