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splachnoid (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the moss genus Splachnum.
    • 1874, John Lindley, Thomas Moore, The Treasury of Botany: L-Z, with supplement, page 1127:
      A remarkable genus of splachnoid mosses, with acute leaves, a mitriform veil, a capsule with a long neck, and sixteen or thirty-two entire or bifid teeth, disposed in pairs []