Bot. [ad. mod.L. anōphytum, f. (by Endlicher) Gr. ἄνω upward + φυτόν growth, plant.] A name given by some to the non-vascular acrogens, or mosses and their allies.
1850. Gray, Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 3), 365. The Anophytes, represented by the Mosses.
1873. Dawson, Earth & Man, vi. 122. The Anophytes or mosses and their allies, with stems and leaves, but no vessels.
