scale moss
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scale moss
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(Plants) any of various leafy liverworts of the order Jungermanniales, which resemble mosses
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Noun 1. [画像:scale moss - moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves]scale moss - moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves; usually epiphytic
hepatic, liverwort - any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
Jungermanniales, order Jungermanniales - large order of chiefly tropical liverworts
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