About The Word Moss
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Moss
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What's The Definition Of Moss?
[n] tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
Synonyms | Synonyms for Moss: Related Terms | Find terms related to Moss: algae | autophyte | baygall | bean | bog | bottom | bottomland | bottoms | bracken | brown algae | buffalo wallow | climber | club moss | conferva | confervoid | creeper | diatom | everglade | fen | fenland | fern | flowering moss | fruits and vegetables | fucus | fungus | glade | grapevine | green algae | gulfweed | herb | heterophyte | hog wallow | holm | ivy | kelp | legume | lentil | liana | lichen | liverwort | marais | marish | marsh | marshland | meadow | mere | mire | mold | moor | moorland | morass | mud | mud flat | mushroom | parasite | parasitic plant | pea | peat bog | perthophyte | phytoplankton | planktonic algae | plant families | puffball | pulse | quag | quagmire | quicksand | red algae | red tipped moss | rockweed | rust | salt marsh | saprophyte | sargasso | sargassum | sea lentil | sea moss | sea wrack | seaweed | slob land | slough | smut | sough | sphagnum moss | succulent | sump | swale | swamp | swampland | taiga | toadstool | vetch | via | vine | wallow | wash | wort | wrack See Also | acrocarp | acrocarpous moss | bog moss | bryophyte | nonvascular plant | peat moss | pleurocarp | pleurocarpous moss | sphagnum | sphagnum moss Moss In Webster's Dictionary \Moss\, n. [OE. mos; akin to AS. me['o]s, D. mos, G. moos,
OHG. mos, mios, Icel. mosi, Dan. mos, Sw. mossa, Russ. mokh',
L. muscus. Cf. {Muscoid}.]
1. (Bot.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with
distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small
capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so
discharging the spores. There are many species,
collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks,
and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
Note: The term moss is also popularly applied to many other
small cryptogamic plants, particularly lichens, species
of which are called tree moss, rock moss, coral moss,
etc. Fir moss and club moss are of the genus
{Lycopodium}. See {Club moss}, under {Club}, and
{Lycopodium}.
2. A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses
of the Scottish border.
Note: Moss is used with participles in the composition of
words which need no special explanation; as,
moss-capped, moss-clad, moss-covered, moss-grown, etc.
{Black moss}. See under {Black}, and {Tillandsia}.
{Bog moss}. See {Sphagnum}.
{Feather moss}, any moss branched in a feathery manner, esp.
several species of the genus {Hypnum}.
{Florida moss}, {Long moss}, or {Spanish moss}. See
{Tillandsia}.
{Iceland moss}, a lichen. See {Iceland Moss}.
{Irish moss}, a seaweed. See {Carrageen}.
{Moss agate} (Min.), a variety of agate, containing brown,
black, or green mosslike or dendritic markings, due in
part to oxide of manganese. Called also {Mocha stone}.
{Moss animal} (Zo["o]l.), a bryozoan.
{Moss berry} (Bot.), the small cranberry ({Vaccinium
Oxycoccus}).
{Moss campion} (Bot.), a kind of mosslike catchfly ({Silene
acaulis}), with mostly purplish flowers, found on the
highest mountains of Europe and America, and within the
Arctic circle.
{Moss land}, land produced accumulation of aquatic plants,
forming peat bogs of more or less consistency, as the
water is grained off or retained in its pores.
{Moss pink} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Phlox} ({P.
subulata}), growing in patches on dry rocky hills in the
Middle United States, and often cultivated for its
handsome flowers. --Gray.
{Moss rose} (Bot.), a variety of rose having a mosslike
growth on the stalk and calyx. It is said to be derived
from the Provence rose.
{Moss rush} (Bot.), a rush of the genus {Juncus} ({J.
squarrosus}).
{Scale moss}. See {Hepatica}.
\Moss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mossed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mossing}.] To cover or overgrow with moss. An oak whose boughs were mossed with age. --Shak. |
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