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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
family 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]