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8.7
To cover something with small green plants that have no flowers
  • verb
  • /mɔs/
translation icon : cubrir de musgo
  • The artist carefully mossed the stone wall to give it an aged appearance.

Examples

  • Gardeners often enjoy mossing pots to add a touch of greenery to their displays.

  • You can moss the old stones to give them a rustic charm.

  • They spent the afternoon mossing the terrarium to create a natural look for the exhibit.

  • They decided to moss the garden path for a natural look.

  • The gardener mossed the rocks in the garden to create a lush, green landscape.

  • After restoring the old fountain, they decided to moss the surrounding area to enhance its beauty.

  • He will moss the wooden bench to make it blend more naturally with the surrounding trees.

Antonyms

42 2.7

Remove all covering or contents from an object so it is left bare

Compounds

2 6.7

A plant with long grey-green strands like hair that hang from tree branches

peat moss
  • Specialized
1 4.5

A soft plant from bogs that helps soil hold water

A soft, spongy moss that grows in wetlands and turns into peat when it rots

1 3.7

A dull yellowish green like the colour of moss

A green and grey plant-like growth that hangs from trees like a long beard

bog moss
  • Specialized
8.4

A soft pale moss that grows in very wet ground and helps make peat

8.6

A plant with long thin grey threads that hang from tree branches

club moss
  • Specialized
8.2

An evergreen plant that looks like moss and makes tiny spores in club-shaped cones

club-moss
  • Specialized
8.9

An evergreen plant that looks like moss and has small cones that contain spores

acrocarpous moss
  • Specialized
9.9

A moss that grows upright with its spore case at the top of the main stem

9.2

A greyish branching plantlike growth in Arctic tundra that is a main food for reindeer and caribou

A small water plant that floats on the surface of ponds and slow streams

A small plant that looks like moss and grows on the ground

8.1

A hanging plant with soft gray-green strands that drape from tree branches

moss agate
  • Specialized
8.4

A semi-precious gem with green or brown patterns like moss

moss animal
  • Specialized
9.9

A small water animal that lives in groups attached to rocks and has a ring of tentacles used for feeding

moss campion
  • Specialized
9.6

A small low plant with pink or purple flowers that grows in tight mats on cold mountains

Covered with soft green moss, often on old stone or wood

moss family
  • Specialized
6.7

A group of related small green plants like common mosses in one family

9.9

A large shrub or small tree with bristly stems and clusters of pink flowers

7.6

A low, spreading evergreen plant with small pink or white flowers used to cover the ground

6.5

A low plant with pink or white flowers that spreads to cover the ground

moss-trooper
  • Archaic
9.9

A person who attacks and steals from people in border bogs between England and Scotland in the 1600s

Iceland moss
  • Specialized
9.2

A lichen with flat, branched parts that grows in cold, rocky places and is eaten or used as medicine

A dark purple seaweed eaten and used to make food thicker

reindeer moss
  • Specialized
9.2

A grey, branching lichen that grows in the Arctic and feeds reindeer

6.3

A low spreading plant with many small bright flowers for sunny gardens

pleurocarpous moss
  • Specialized
9.9

A moss that has its reproductive parts on short side branches, not the main stem

scale moss
  • Specialized
9.9

A small plant with tiny flat leaves that often grows on other plants

sea moss
  • Specialized
8.9

A small animal that lives attached to rocks or seaweed and forms moss-like groups with tiny tentacles

6.9

A red sea plant used as food and to thicken dishes

spike moss
  • Specialized
8.2

A small plant like moss that grows close to the ground in damp, shady places

staghorn moss
  • Specialized
9.8

A low green plant with many branching stems that look like small antlers

Surface Forms

moss infinitive
mossed past
mossed past participle
mossing present participle
mosses third person singular

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.