Nonvascular organism (original) (raw)

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I. (noun)

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Meaning:

Organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("nonvascular organism" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonvascular organism"):

bryophyte; nonvascular plant (any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta)

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