musci Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
    class Bryopsida; Bryopsida; class Musci.

WordNet

Mus"ci noun plural
Etymology
L. muscus moss.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.

Webster 1913