moss
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- noun
- /mɔs/
:
musgo
- Everything's covered in Moss, there's huge ferns, everything is so green.
- green moss
- covered in moss
- moss grows
This is just perlite, vermiculite, sphagnum, peat Moss and and humus.
- This is just perlite, vermiculite, sphagnum, peat Moss and and humus.
- Heron on a hill descending to the stream, Moss on the stones.
- It's not like Moss hanging over very dense.
Examples
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There was a small stream flowing under some moss-covered trees that caught my eye.
Academic text (2003) -
The right fork dipped to cross a stone bridge, then vanished into a moss-draped and unwholesome wood.
Academic text (2016) -
I see moss on both sides of that tree.
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The ground was soft, covered with runner moss; careful feet made no sound.
Fiction book (1992) -
There was so much muck and green Moss there when I came back.
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The floor changed from gravel to a soft green moss, which also climbed the walls.
Fiction book (1991) -
We climbed over lichen-covered boulders and moss-covered logs as we followed the bear trails.
Academic text (2000) -
Festooned with Spanish moss, a live oak grows in a mesic hammock along with saw palmetto.
Academic text (2010) -
Knight's plume (Ptilium crista-castrensis) is a feather-moss that forms a soft carpet beneath black spruce.
Academic text (2012) -
The forest floor was covered with moss, creating a soft green carpet underfoot.
Compounds
- Specialized
An evergreen plant that looks like moss and makes tiny spores in club-shaped cones
- Specialized
An evergreen plant that looks like moss and has small cones that contain spores
- Specialized
A moss that grows upright with its spore case at the top of the main stem
- UK
A greyish branching plantlike growth in Arctic tundra that is a main food for reindeer and caribou
- Specialized
A small water animal that lives in groups attached to rocks and has a ring of tentacles used for feeding
- Specialized
A small low plant with pink or purple flowers that grows in tight mats on cold mountains
- US
A low, spreading evergreen plant with small pink or white flowers used to cover the ground
- Archaic
A person who attacks and steals from people in border bogs between England and Scotland in the 1600s
- Specialized
A lichen with flat, branched parts that grows in cold, rocky places and is eaten or used as medicine
- Specialized
A moss that has its reproductive parts on short side branches, not the main stem
- Specialized
A small animal that lives attached to rocks or seaweed and forms moss-like groups with tiny tentacles
- Specialized
A small plant like moss that grows close to the ground in damp, shady places
- Specialized
A low green plant with many branching stems that look like small antlers
How Small
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word moss comes from an old English word mos meaning 'bog' or 'peat', and it is like the German Moos. So moss is the small green plant we see in wet, shady places and on old stones.