different between spermophyte vs bryophyte

English

Ancient Greek ?????? (spérma, “seed”) +? -phyte (“plant”)

spermophyte (plural spermophytes)

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

bryophyte (plural bryophytes)

(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.

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