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Rostellum :: Rostellum (n.) 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..

Mossiness :: Mossiness (n.) The state of being mossy.

Dorsal :: Dorsal (a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss..

Pteridophyta :: Pteridophyta (n. pl.) A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia..

Wolf''s-claw :: Wolf's-claw (n.) A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.

Wolf''s-foot :: Wolf's-foot (n.) Club moss. See Lycopodium.

Hag :: Hag (n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.

Urn-shaped :: Urn-shaped (a.) Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses..

Mossbanker :: Mossbanker (n.) Alt. of Mossbunke.

Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) One of the buds of mosses.

Zooecium :: Zooecium (n.) One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.

Sporophoric :: Sporophore (n.) 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..

Rhizine :: Rhizine (n.) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.

Pleurocarp :: Pleurocarp (n.) Any pleurocarpic moss.

Hepatica :: Hepatica (n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement..

Mossing :: Mossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mos.

Deoperculate :: Deoperculate (a.) Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.

Hypnum :: Hypnum (n.) The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.

Incubous :: Incubous (a.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous..

Columella :: Columella (n.) A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses.

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