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Bryology

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• Bryony

  any Old World vine or climbing plant belonging to the genus Bryonia, of the gourd family, yielding acrid juice having emetic and purgative properties. Historical Examples The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies Cooley’s Practical Receipts, Volume II Arnold Cooley Nature Near London Richard Jefferies Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various […]

• Bryophyllum

  any of various kalanchoes, as Kalanchoe pinnata, that characteristically bear plantlets along the leaf margins. Historical Examples Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 3 Various The Organism as a Whole Jacques Loeb Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 Various Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose Life Movements […]

• Bryozoa

  a phylum of invertebrates comprising about 4000 marine and freshwater species of bryozoans. Historical Examples Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Gary N. Calkins Marvels of Pond-life Henry J. Slack The Story of Evolution Joseph McCabe The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide Augusta Foote Arnold Stories of the Universe: Animal Life B. Lindsay The Ancient Life History of […]

• Bryozoan

  belonging or pertaining to the Bryozoa. Also called moss animal. any sessile marine or freshwater animal of the phylum Bryozoa, forming branching, encrusting, or gelatinous mosslike colonies of many small polyps, each having a circular or horseshoe-shaped ridge bearing ciliated tentacles, occurring on algae or on shaded objects. noun any aquatic invertebrate animal of the […]

• Bryozoology

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