The fluorescence decay of matrix-isolated m-xylylene biradicals is nonexponential and attributed to the emission from different sublevels of the first excited triplet state. In the presence of a magnetic field, the lifetime of the slow decay component decreases. Its dependence as a function of a weak magnetic field can be calculated for different values of the zero-field splitting parameter D. The best fitting value is /D/ = 0.04 +/- 0.01 cm-1. This D value is found to be significantly larger in the first excited triplet state than in the ground state of the m-xylylene biradicals.