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Definition of Moss family
1. Noun. A family of mosses.
Group relationships: Bryophyta, Division Bryophyta
Specialized synonyms: Anthocerotaceae, Family Anthocerotaceae, Dicranaceae, Family Dicranaceae, Bryaceae, Family Bryaceae, Family Mniaceae, Mniaceae, Family Jungermanniaceae, Jungermanniaceae, Family Marchantiaceae, Marchantiaceae, Family Sphaerocarpaceae, Sphaerocarpaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moss Family
Literary usage of Moss family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"CLUB-moss family. Fig. 1. Branched plants of moderate size, ... The club-moss
family contains 2 genera and about species, all but one of which belong to ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"... (CLUB-Moss FAMILY.) Perennial plants, with solid branching and mostly creeping
Eterna, sparingly or thickly clothed with small, simple, sessile, ..."
3. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... CLUB moss family. Flowerless plants, often moss-like or fern-like, •with leafy,
often elongated and branching stems, the spores contained in rather ..."
4. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, from by Richard Anson Wheeler (1900)
"moss family. i. JOHN MOSS, the ancestor of the moss family of Stoning- ton,
Conn., was born in England about 1619. Emigrated and settled at New Haven in ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"CLUB-moss family. Fig. 1. Branched plants of moderate size, ... The club-moss
family contains 2 genera and about species, all but one of which belong to ..."
6. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"... (CLUB-Moss FAMILY.) Perennial plants, with solid branching and mostly creeping
Eterna, sparingly or thickly clothed with small, simple, sessile, ..."
7. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... CLUB moss family. Flowerless plants, often moss-like or fern-like, •with leafy,
often elongated and branching stems, the spores contained in rather ..."
8. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, from by Richard Anson Wheeler (1900)
"moss family. i. JOHN MOSS, the ancestor of the moss family of Stoning- ton,
Conn., was born in England about 1619. Emigrated and settled at New Haven in ..."
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