mechovka

Etymology
From.
 * First used by Czech botanist Jan Bezděk in 1901. The name probably refers to the fact that the fungus often grows in moss (🇨🇬).
 * , from +, which is a plural of . It refers to the fact that colonies of some species of these animals resemble moss (🇨🇬).
 * Refers to the moss-like surface of the sepal.

Noun



 * 1)  genus of fungi in the family
 * 2) moss animal, bryozoan, a representative of the phylum
 * 3)  var. muscosa a kind of a hybrid rose

Usage notes

 * Czech names of and some of its subgroups are often used ambiguously. While some authors use the name  for the whole phylum Bryozoa, others call them, leaving the name mechovky only for its class . Then singular mechovka refers to any representative of the groups. Besides this, the name mechovka is also used for many (but not all) of the genera from various classes of the phylum Bryozoa.

Hypernyms

 * – kingdom; – division;  – class;  – order;  – family
 * – kingdom; – clade
 * – kingdom; – subkingdom;  – clade;  – clade;  – order;  – family;  – genus;  – species