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moss
tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
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hepatic, liverwort
any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
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hornwort
liverworts with slender hornlike capsules
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acrocarp, acrocarpous moss
a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule)
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pleurocarp, pleurocarpous moss
a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk
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bog moss, peat moss, sphagnum, sphagnum moss
any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
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leafy liverwort, scale moss
moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves; usually epiphytic
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Marchantia polymorpha, hepatica
a common liverwort
