different between bryophyte vs angiosperms

English

Etymology

From Bryophyta, from Ancient Greek ????? (brúon, “moss”) + ????? (phutón, “plant”) ( +? -phyte).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b????.?.f??t/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?b?a??.?.f?it/

Noun

bryophyte (plural bryophytes)

1. (botany) Any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts and hornworts and corresponding to all embryophytes that are not vascular plants.
   • 2002, William R. Buck, Bryophytes, entry in Niles Eldredge (editor), Life on Earth, page 202,

     Because of their small size and often delicate structure, bryophytes have a poor fossil record, dating back only about 290 million years.

   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 312:

     And so it was that I was introduced to Len Ellis and the quiet world of bryophytes – mosses to the rest of us.

Translations

See also

• Anthocerotophyta (the hornworts)
• cryptogam
• embryophyte
• Marchantiophyta (the liverworts)
• pteridophyte
• spermatophyte

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Angiosperms

Etymology

Plural of English angiosperm

Proper noun

angiosperms

1. A taxonomic clade within the kingdom Plantae – the green plants.

Synonyms

• (clade): Magnoliophyta, Angiospermae, flowering plants

Hyponyms

• (clade): eudicots, magnoliids, monocots - clades; Amborellales, Austrobaileyales, Ceratophyllales, Chloranthales, Nymphaeales - unassigned orders; Apodanthaceae, Cynomoriaceae - unassigned families; Gumillea, †Macclintockia, Petenaea - unassigned genera

References

• angiosperms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• angiosperms on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• angiosperms on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• angiosperms at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Angiospermae at Encyclopedia of Life
• Magnoliophyta at National Center for Biotechnology Information

English

Noun

angiosperms

1. plural of angiosperm