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The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses.
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The theca of mosses.
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A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
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The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.
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That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
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Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.
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A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia.
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Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.
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A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.
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Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.
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An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.
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The calyptra of mosses.
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Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceae, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.
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A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
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A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.
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Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.
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Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses.
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Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.
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A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
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A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.