Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of acrocarpous mosses, now made the type of the family Mniaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A genus of mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.
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- noun mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger
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Examples
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_Brachythecium plumosum_, _Mnium serratum_, _Splachnum vasculosum_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Mnium f trichomqnis J foliis diftichis, integerrimis. linn.
Spicilegium florae Goettingensis: plantas inprimis cryptogamicas Hercyniae ... 1778
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Mnium cricbomanis facie foliolis inte - gerrimis.mLL. IJiJi.p.2s (f.
Spicilegium florae Goettingensis: plantas inprimis cryptogamicas Hercyniae ... 1778
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