MOSS FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does moss family mean?
• MOSS FAMILY (noun)
The noun MOSS FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. a family of mosses
Familiarity information: MOSS FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MOSS FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
A family of mosses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("moss family" is a kind of...):
family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moss family"):
Anthocerotaceae; family Anthocerotaceae (hornworts)
Dicranaceae; family Dicranaceae (mosses having costate leaves and long-stalked capsules with cleft peristome)
Bryaceae; family Bryaceae (a family of acrocarpous mosses)
family Mniaceae; Mniaceae (family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae)
family Jungermanniaceae; Jungermanniaceae (comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales)
family Marchantiaceae; Marchantiaceae (liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli)
family Sphaerocarpaceae; Sphaerocarpaceae (liverworts with bilaterally symmetrical gametophytes; sometimes placed in the order Jungermanniales)
Holonyms ("moss family" 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))
