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nonvascular organism

Definitions of nonvascular organism
  1. noun
    organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses
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    types:
    bryophyte, nonvascular plant
    any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta
    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
    type of:
    being, organism
    a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
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