to moss
- verb
- /mɔs/
- The artist carefully mossed the stone wall to give it an aged appearance.
Examples
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Gardeners often enjoy mossing pots to add a touch of greenery to their displays.
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You can moss the old stones to give them a rustic charm.
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They spent the afternoon mossing the terrarium to create a natural look for the exhibit.
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They decided to moss the garden path for a natural look.
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The gardener mossed the rocks in the garden to create a lush, green landscape.
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After restoring the old fountain, they decided to moss the surrounding area to enhance its beauty.
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He will moss the wooden bench to make it blend more naturally with the surrounding trees.
Antonyms
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb moss (to cover with moss) also traces back to old English mos meaning 'bog', and it keeps the picture of wet, green growth. So to moss something is to put that soft green plant on it, often to make it look old or natural.