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]