Definition of Musci

1. Noun. True mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales.


Definition of Musci

1. n. pl. An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.

Medical Definition of Musci

1. An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia. Origin: L. Muscus moss. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Musci

muscarines
muscarinic
muscarinic acetylcholine receptor
muscarinic agonist
muscarinic antagonist
muscarinic antagonists
muscarinic receptor kinase
muscarinic receptors
muscarinism
muscat
muscat grape
muscatel
muscatels
muscats
muschelkalk
musci (current term)
muscicapine
muscicide
muscicolous
muscid
muscids
musciform
muscimol
muscine
muscle
muscle-bound
muscle-builder
muscle-tendon attachment

Literary usage of Musci

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"musci GERMINATION OF THE SPORE IN musci IN dealing with the musci I shall, for reasons which will appear presently, start from the germination of the spore. ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"musci. THE Mosses for the most part show greater uniformity of plan in their ... sterilisation in the musci, even where the gradual steps of the process are ..."

3. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"The plant-body (gametophyte) in the musci consists of a stem bearing thin leaves, usually spirally ..."

4. A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany by Frederick Orpen Bower (1891)
"BRYOPHYTA A.—musci POLYTRICHUM COMMUNE, L A.—GENERAL EXTERNAL CHARACTERS I. Observe in well-grown specimens of this Moss taken in spring or early summer— 1. ..."

5. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"These plants are of two principal kinds : true Mosses (musci, which is their ... Mosses or musci The pale Peat-mosses (species of Sphagnum, the principal ..."

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