noun
large order of chiefly tropical liverworts
• Syn: ↑order Jungermanniales
• Hypernyms: ↑plant order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Hepaticopsida, ↑class Hepaticopsida, ↑Hepaticae, ↑class Hepaticae
• Member Meronyms: ↑leafy liverwort, ↑scale moss, ↑Jungermanniaceae, ↑family Jungermanniaceae
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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈā(ˌ)lēz\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a large and widely distributed order of predominantly tropical liverworts that grow from a definite apical cell, that are characterized by marked diversity of form but with simple primitive tissue organization, and that include the leafy liverworts together with certain lower forms with terrestrial habits and a simple branching thallus or a leafless thalloid shoot — compare acrogynae, anacrogynae; see jungermanniaceae
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Jungermanniales /yŭn-gər-man-i-āˈlēz/ (botany)
plural noun
One of the main divisions of the Hepaticae, with thallus or leafy stem, and usu a capsule opening by four valves
ORIGIN: Ludwig Jungermann (1572–1653), German botanist
Useful english dictionary. 2012.