Hypnobryales

plural noun

Hyp·​no·​bryales

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: an order of Musci comprising mosses with a pleurocarpous sporophyte and a capsule usually inclined at the end of a long seta and with an entire endostome

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from hypno- (from Hypnum, genus of mosses) + Bryales

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Rhymes for Hypnobryales

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