Mniaceae

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Mniaceae
       n : 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: {family Mniaceae}]