Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bryophyta \Bry*oph"y*ta\, n. pl.
See Cryptogamia.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]