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- sphagnum (n.)
- genus of mosses, peat-moss, 1741, Modern Latin, from Latin sphagnos, a kind of lichen, from Greek sphagnos "a spiny shrub, a kind of moss," of unknown origin. Related: Sphagnous.
- bryology
- "The study of mosses and liverworts", Mid 19th century: from Greek bruon 'moss' + -logy.
- muscology
- "The branch of botany that deals with mosses (and sometimes other bryophytes)", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in William Hooker (1785–1865), botanist. From scientific Latin muscologia from classical Latin muscus + -ologia.
- cryptogam
- "A plant that has no true flowers or seeds, including ferns, mosses, liverworts, lichens, algae, and fungi", Mid 19th century: from French cryptogame, from modern Latin cryptogamae (plantae), denoting non-flowering plants, from Greek kruptos 'hidden' + gamos 'marriage' (because the means of reproduction was not apparent).
- antheridium
- "The male sex organ of algae, mosses, ferns, fungi, and other non-flowering plants", Mid 19th century: modern Latin, from anthera (see anther) + -idium (from the Greek diminutive suffix -idion).