bryophyte

Other forms: bryophytes

Definitions of bryophyte

1. noun

   any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta
   synonyms: nonvascular plant

   types:

   moss

   tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants

   hepatic, liverwort

   any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses

   hornwort

   liverworts with slender hornlike capsules

   acrocarp, acrocarpous moss

   a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule)

   pleurocarp, pleurocarpous moss

   a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk

   bog moss, peat moss, sphagnum, sphagnum moss

   any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat

   leafy liverwort, scale moss

   moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves; usually epiphytic

   Marchantia polymorpha, hepatica

   a common liverwort

   type of:

   nonvascular organism

   organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses