liverwort vs bryophyte

liverwort and bryophyte both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
liverwort	Yes	No	No	No
bryophyte	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bryophyte is a hypernym of liverwort; that is, bryophyte is a word with a broader meaning than liverwort:

liverwort: any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
bryophyte: any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta

Other hypernyms of liverwort include nonvascular plant.

liverwort (noun)	bryophyte (noun)
any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses	any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta