Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of cryptogamic plants of the class Hepaticæ, coextensive with the family Jungermanniaceæ, and therefore including both the anacrogynous and the acrogynous scalemosses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A large order of chiefly tropical liverworts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
order within theclass Jungermanniopsida — theleafy liverworts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large order of chiefly tropical liverworts
Etymologies
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Jungermannia + -ales
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Examples
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The lower members of the Jungermanniales are also thalloid, but the thallus never has the complicated structure characteristic of the Marchantiales, and progress is in the direction of the differentiation of the plant into stem and leaf.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The Marchantiales form an obviously natural evolutionary group, and the same is probably true of the Jungermanniales, although in neither case can the partial lines of progression within the main groups be said to be quite clear.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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