CLASS HEPATICAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does class Hepaticae mean? 

• CLASS HEPATICAE (noun)
  The noun CLASS HEPATICAE has 1 sense:

1. liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales

  Familiarity information: CLASS HEPATICAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASS HEPATICAE (noun)

Meaning:

Liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Hepaticae; class Hepaticopsida; Hepaticae; Hepaticopsida

Hypernyms ("class Hepaticae" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "class Hepaticae"):

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

Jungermanniales; order Jungermanniales (large order of chiefly tropical liverworts)

Marchantiales; order Marchantiales (liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally)

order Sphaerocarpales; Sphaerocarpales (small order sometimes included in the order Jungermanniales)

Holonyms ("class Hepaticae" is a member of...):

Bryophyta; division 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))