moss
moss (môs, mäs)
noun
- any of various classes (esp. Bryopsida) of very small, green bryophytes having stems with leaflike structures and growing in velvety clusters on rocks, trees, moist ground, etc.
- a growth of these
- any of various similar plants, as some lichens, algae, etc.
Etymology: ME mos, a bog, moss < OE, a swamp, akin to ON mosi, Ger moos, a bog, moss < IE *meus- (> L muscus, moss) < base *meu-, moist
transitive verb
to cover with a growth of moss
moss
n.
Types of mosses include: musci, bryophyta, sphagnum, peat moss, mosslike lichen, Iceland, rock, club;
Converse of subject
- dominate: Some high hummocks are dominated by wooly hair moss.
Converse of object
- gather: Moss The cheapest source of bushes is moss gathered from the garden.
- remove: How do I remove the moss with your products?
- kill: How to kill moss Where can I apply the Moss Killers?
Adjective modifier
- epiphytic: The herb layer is not diverse and the epiphytic moss and lichen flora is also poor.
- wooly: Some high hummocks are dominated by wooly hair moss.
- aquatic: Fontinalis is one of only a few completely aquatic mosses in North America.
- damp: After cutting the stem pack it with damp moss.
- Spanish: A pile of Spanish moss lies like a coat of curly hair tossed onto the path.
- rare: Two months pass and John makes a basket for Marion made out of rare moss.
Modifies a noun
- campion: Look for plants such as sea pink, moss campion, scurvy grass, sea mayweed and lichens on the rocky foreshore.
- peat: They grow best in a 1:1 mixture of lime-free sharp sand and moss peat.
- stitch: Both garments have set in sleeves and a moss stitch textured design.
- killer: Then treat the moss with a chemical moss killer.
- carpet: The ground flora ranges from areas of abundant bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus, through grassy areas, to rich moss carpets.
Noun used with modifier
- sphagnum: Next, add a thin cover of sphagnum moss, which will prevent the soil from sifting down to the drainage layer.
- peat: Fill the bottom of the hole with compost or peat moss.
- bog: In the wettest reaches of Bodmin moor, sphagnum or bog moss can be found.
- torrent: In other words, all was quiet at the bottom of the torrent moss world, despite the storm of rushing water overhead.
- oak: Aqua Quorum also contains freesia, and is accented with oak moss, geranium an.. .
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.
This is farewell. I shall wait beneath the moss Until the flowers are fragrant In this island country of Japan.
Give methemanwho will surrender the whole world for a moss or a caterpillar, and impracticable visions for a simple human delight.
Browse dictionary entries near moss
- mosquitofish
- Mosquito Virus
- mosquito hawk
- Mosquito Coast
- mosquito
- mosque
- Moslem
- Moskva
- moshav
- mosh
- moss agate
- moss-grown
- Moss, Jeff
- moss pink
- moss rose
- Mossad
- mossback
- mossbunker
- mosstrooper
- mossy
