a. Bot. [f. mod.L. Splachn-um (Linnæus), ad. Gr. σπλάγχνον (Dioscorides), some moss or lichen.] Characteristic of, related to, Splachnum, a genus of mosses of elegant form and color.
1833. Hooker, in J. E. Smith’s Eng. Flora, V. I. 6. So remarkable a plant as this [Œdipodium], with a splachnoid habit. Ibid., 17. As in all the splachnoid family.
1866. Treas. Bot., Tayloria, a remarkable genus of splachnoid mosses.
