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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae;
[syn: Mniaceae, family Mniaceae]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mniaceae \Mniaceae\ prop. n. A natural family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses andgonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae. Syn: family Mniaceae. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Mniaceae n 1: family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae [syn: Mniaceae, family Mniaceae]