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nounlarge genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances
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- lobster any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
- ursus type genus of Ursidae: brown bears; in some classifications genus Ursus includes all bears
- hepatic any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
- liverwort any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
- fern ally pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida
- order anthocerotales hornworts; liverworts having a thalloid gametophyte; in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida
- dicotyledonae comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae
- cycadophyta palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta)
- lycophyta used in some classifications for the class Lycopsida: club mosses
- genus ursus type genus of Ursidae: brown bears; in some classifications genus Ursus includes all bears