Definition of Mnium

1. Noun. Mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.

Exact synonyms: Genus Mnium
Generic synonyms: Moss Genus
Group relationships: Family Mniaceae, Mniaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mnium

Mizzes
Mjollner
Mjolner
Mjolnir
Mjöllnir
Mjølner
Mjølnir
Mkhobosa
Mkuu
Mkwaya
Mlt38 lytic transglycosylase
Mmani
Mn
Mnemosyne
Mniaceae
Mnium (current term)
MoAb
MoBay
MoMA
Mo 1
Moabite
Moabites
Moabitess
Moabitesses
Moabitic
Moabitish
Moban
Mobil
Mobile

Literary usage of Mnium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mosses with a Hand-lens: A Non-technical Handbook of the More Common and by Abel Joel Grout (1905)
"CM, the Toothed Mnium, closely resembles the Woodsy Mnium in many respects ... The leaves of the Toothed Mnium are serrate with very long and slender teeth, ..."

2. Letters on the Elements of Botany: Addressed to a Lady by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Martyn (1787)
"Mnium agrees with Polytrichum in having two forts of fructification ; the one a lidded ... of Mnium, ..."

3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"Glanville's Wootton, Jan. 1, 18-12. LII.— On Mnium annotinum of ... This is the case with Mnium annotinum of ..."

4. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1804)
"Remarks on the Generic Characters of Mosses, and particularly of the Genus Mnium. ... This accurate observer of Mosses gives, as the character of his Mnium ..."

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