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What is the noun for bryology?

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bryophyte
  1. (botany) Any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts and hornworts and corresponding to all embryophytes that are not vascular plants.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For the last category, we used aligned sequences of the five genes of a lycopod and a bryophyte.”
      “It has been suggested that the small DNA amounts and low C-value variation are linked to the biflagellate nature of bryophyte sperm cells.”
      “Although most botanists call them leaves for convenience, the technical term for these bryophyte structures is phyllids.”
bryology
  1. (botany) The study of bryophytes (non-vascular plants including mosses and liverworts).
  2. Examples:
    1. “The following references are key sources for entry into the primary scientific literature in the fields of bryology and lichenology.”
      “Bryologists from all countries are invited to publish original research from any field of bryology.”
      “When Steere began his work on mosses in the early 1930s, bryology was a field filled primarily with amateurs.”
bryologist
  1. A scientist specialising in bryology.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He was the first bryologist to visit the northern slopes of the American Arctic Mountains.”
      “The new paper improves the case for springtail sperm delivery, says evolutionary bryologist Nils Cronberg of Lurid University in Sweden.”
      “But most of all, throughout his life he was a botanist, a bryologist by specialist preference.”
bryologists
  1. plural of bryologist
bryophytes
  1. plural of bryophyte
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A large number of invertebrates, bryophytes, and lichens are also likely to depend on large dead trees.”
      “The cuticle of terrestrial vascular plants and some bryophytes is covered with a complex mixture of lipids, usually called epicuticular waxes.”
      “The site is rich in acidophilic species, particularly pteridophytes and bryophytes, and contains a number of regionally rare taxa.”
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