Moss

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various green, usually small, nonvascular plants of the class Musci of the division Bryophyta.
  • n. A patch or covering of such plants.
  • n. Any of various other unrelated plants having a similar appearance or manner of growth, such as the club moss, Irish moss, and Spanish moss.
  • v. To cover with moss.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A bog; a swamp.
  • n. Any of various small green plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones etc.; now specifically, a plant of the division Bryophyta (formerly Musci).
  • n. A type or species of such plant.
  • v. To become covered with moss.
  • v. To cover (something) with moss.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
  • n. A bog; a morass; a place containing peat.
  • v. To cover or overgrow with moss.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small herbaceous plant of the natural order Musci, with simple or branching stems and numerous generally narrow leaves: usually applied to a matted mass of such plants growing together; also, in popular use, any small cryptogamic plant, particularly a lichen: as, Iceland moss, club-moss, rock-moss, coral-moss, etc., and sometimes small matted phanerogams, as Pyxidanthera.
  • n. Money: in allusion to the proverb, “a rolling stone gathers no moss.”
  • To cover with moss.
  • To become mossy; gather moss.
  • n. A swamp or bog; specifically, a peatbog or a tract of such bogs; also, peat.
  • n. An erroneous form of morse.
  • n. The widow's-cross, Sedum pulchellum.
  • n. The haircap-moss, Polytrichum juniperinum.
  • n. Same as golden moss .
  • n. Same as flowering moss .
  • To fill with moss, as the crevices between the logs in a logging-camp.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
  • Verb Form
    mossed    mossing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Form
    mossed    mossing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bog    morass   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cos    Cross    Ross    across    boss    cos    coss    criss-cross    cross    dos   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fern    foliage    grass    twig    mud    turf    straw    reed    vine    seaweed