dictionary definitions for "jungermannia"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jungermannia \Jun`ger*man"ni*a\, prop. n.; pl.
     {Jungermanni[ae]}. [NL. Named after Ludwig Jungermann, a
     German botanist.] (Bot.)
     A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but
     formerly comprising most plants of the family, which is
     sometimes therefore called {Jungermanniace[ae]}.
     [1913 Webster]


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