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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

JUNGERMANNIA

Jun `ger *man "ni *a, n.; pl. Jungermanniæ. Etym: [NL. Named after Ludwig Jungermann, a German botanist. ] (Bot. )

 

Defn: A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ.