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Definition of Mnium
1. Noun. Mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.
Generic synonyms: Moss Genus
Group relationships: Family Mniaceae, Mniaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mnium
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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