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moss
(môs, mŏs)n.
1.
a. 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.
b. A patch or covering of such plants.
2. Any of various other unrelated plants having a similar appearance or manner of growth, such as Irish moss, Spanish moss, and the club mosses.
tr.v. mossed, moss·ing, moss·es
To cover with moss.
[Middle English, from Old English mos, bog, and from Medieval Latin mossa, moss (of Germanic origin).]
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moss
(mɒs)n
1. (Plants) Also called: mossplant any bryophyte of the phylum Bryophyta, typically growing in dense mats on trees, rocks, moist ground, etc. See also peat moss
2. (Plants) a clump or growth of any of these plants
3. (Plants) any of various similar but unrelated plants, such as club moss, Spanish moss, Ceylon moss, rose moss, and reindeer moss
4. (Physical Geography) Scot and Northern English a peat bog or marsh
[Old English mos swamp; compare Middle Dutch, Old High German mos bog, Old Norse mosi; compare also Old Norse mӯrr mire]
ˈmossˌlike adj
ˈmossy adj
ˈmossiness n
Moss
(mɒs)n
1. (Biography) Kate. born 1974, British supermodel.
2. (Biography) Sir Stirling. born 1929, English racing driver
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moss
(mɔs, mɒs)n.
1. any tiny, leafy-stemmed, filamentous bryophyte of the class Musci, growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
2. a growth of such plants.
3. any of various similar plants, as Iceland moss or club moss.
v.t. 4. to cover with a growth of moss.
[before 1000; Middle English mos(se), Old English mos moss, bog; akin to German Moos, Old Norse mȳrr mire]
moss′like`, adj.
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moss
(môs)1. Any of numerous small, green plants that lack vascular tissue and do not bear seeds. Mosses usually live in moist, shady areas and grow in clusters or mats on the ground, rocks, and tree trunks.
2. 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 flowering plant.
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| Noun | 1. |  moss - tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plantsbryophyte, nonvascular plant - any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta acrocarp, acrocarpous moss - a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule) pleurocarp, pleurocarpous moss - a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk bog moss, peat moss, sphagnum, sphagnum moss - any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat |
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moss
(mos) noun (any variety of) a type of small flowerless plant, found in damp places, forming a soft green covering on tree trunks etc. The bank of the river was covered in moss.musgo
ˈmossy adjectivemusgoso, cubierto de musgo
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