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Moss definition

môs, mŏs
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To cover with moss.
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To cover with a growth of moss.
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Moss is a very small seedless plant that lives in moist places and grows in soft feathery patches.

An example of moss is the soft green plants that grow on the ground under a thick forest.

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A patch or covering of such plants.
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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.
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Any of various other unrelated plants having a similar appearance or manner of growth, such as Irish moss, Spanish moss, and the club mosses.
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Any of various green, usually small, nonvascular plants of the division Bryophyta, having leaflike structures arranged around the stem and spores borne in a capsule.
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Any of various similar plants, as some lichens and algae.
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A growth of these.
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A surname​.
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Any of various green, usually small nonvascular plants of the division Bryophyta. Mosses, unlike liverworts, have some tissues specialized for conducting water and nutrients. As in the other bryophytes, the diploid sporophyte grows on the haploid gametophyte generation, which supplies it with nutrients. Mosses often live in moist, shady areas and grow in clusters or mats. Sphagnum mosses play a crucial role in the ecology of peat bogs.
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Any of a number of plants that look like mosses but are not related to them. For instance, reindeer moss is a lichen, Irish moss is an alga, and Spanish moss is a bromeliad, a flowering plant.
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Noun

Singular:
moss
Plural:
mosses

Origin of moss

  • Middle English from Old English mos bog and from Medieval Latin mossa moss (of Germanic origin)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Moss Sentence Examples

  • The man with eyes the color of the moss in his room materialized from the shadows.

  • Here, too, grows Spanish moss, used by upholsterers.

  • The water moved silently over moss and lichen covered slabs of rocks, forming small pools in the low spots.

  • They are microscopical in size and live in damp moss or water.

  • The latter raises the moss and bark gently with his knife in search of insects; the former lays open logs to their core with his axe, and moss and bark fly far and wide.

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