rhizoids in English

noun
1
a filamentous outgrowth or root hair on the underside of the thallus in some lower plants, especially mosses and liverworts, serving both to anchor the plant and (in terrestrial forms) to conduct water.
The other end manifests an array of long, filamentous rhizoids that have the appearance, and apparently serve the same function, as root hairs.

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1. Bryophyta do not have roots, but they have rhizoids, […]

2. The Archegonia and rhizoids are located on the underside of the thallus

3. Members of the Cryptobiotic crust stabilize soil particles with intertwining cellular strands and intricate, root-like extensions called rhizoids and rhizines.

4. Bryophyta - a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida)

5. Bryophyta definition is - a division of nonflowering plants comprising the mosses and liverworts characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots, by little or no organized vascular tissue, by multicellular archegonia and antheridia in which only some of the cells are sporogenous, and by a clear-cut alternation of generations, the sporophyte being without chlorophyll and remaining attached to