Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bryophyta \Bry*oph"y*ta\, n. pl.
   See {Cryptogamia}.

Source : WordNet®

Bryophyta
     n : a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids
         rather than true roots and having little or no organized
         vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations
         between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms;
         comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts
         (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida) [syn: {division
         Bryophyta}]