Dictionary entry

Jungermannia

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖Jun′ger‐man″ni‐a (?), n.; pl.Jungermanniæ (#). [NL. Named after Ludwig Jungermann, a German botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ.