Bryopsis

noun

Bry·​op·​sis

brīˈäpsə̇s

: a genus (the type of the family Bryopsidaceae) of marine green algae that occur in warmer seas and have nonseptate filaments forming a rhizomatous prostrate base and an upright pinnately branched portion

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from bry- + -opsis

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