nonvascular plant

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• nonvascular plant — noun any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta • Syn: ↑bryophyte • Hypernyms: ↑nonvascular organism • Hyponyms: ↑moss, ↑liverwort, ↑hepatic • …   Useful english dictionary

• nonvascular organism — noun organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses • Hypernyms: ↑organism, ↑being • Hyponyms: ↑bryophyte, ↑nonvascular plant …   Useful english dictionary

• plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… …   Universalium

• plant development — Introduction       a multiphasic process in which two distinct forms succeed each other in alternating generations. One form, created by the union of sexual cells (gametes (gamete)), contains two sets of similar chromosomes (diploid). At sexual… …   Universalium

• lower vascular plant — ▪ biology Introduction formerly  pteridophyte,  also called  vascular cryptogam,         any of the spore bearing vascular plants, including the ferns, club mosses, spike mosses, quillworts, horsetails, and whisk ferns. Once considered of the… …   Universalium

• Non-vascular plant — Non vascular plants is a general term for those plants without a vascular system (xylem and phloem). Although non vascular plants lack these particular tissues, a number of non vascular plants possess tissues specialized for internal transport of …   Wikipedia

• vascular plant — a plant having a vascular system. [1860 65] * * * or tracheophyte Any plant that has a specialized conducting system consisting mostly of phloem (food conducting tissue) and xylem (water conducting tissue), collectively called vascular tissue.… …   Universalium

• Bryophyta — noun 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… …   Useful english dictionary

• division Bryophyta — noun 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… …   Useful english dictionary

• bryophyte — ryophyte n. any of numerous plants of the division {Bryophyta}. Syn: nonvascular plant. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• thallus — [thal′əs] n. pl. thalli [thal′ī΄] or thalluses [ModL < Gr thallos, young shoot: see THALIA] the nonvascular plant body of a thallophyte, showing no clear distinction of roots, stem, or leaves thalloid [thal′oid΄] adj …   English World dictionary