Moss
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English
Noun
Moss (countable and uncountable; plural Mosses)- Any of various small green plants of the division Bryophyta (formerly class Musci).
- A clump or patch of such plants covering the ground or other surface.
- Any of various other non-related plants, algae, or fungi of a similar appearance.
Notes
- The plural form mosses is used when more than one kind of moss is meant. The singular moss is used referring to a collection of moss plants of the same kind.
Derived terms
Verb
Moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)
- (intransitive) To become covered with moss.
- An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with moss.
Thesaurus
algae, autophyte, baygall, bean, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, bracken, brown algae, buffalo wallow, climber, club moss, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, everglade, fen, fenland, fern, flowering moss, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, glade, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, hog wallow, holm, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, mold, moor, moorland, morass, mud, mud flat, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, peat bog, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, quag, quagmire, quicksand, red algae, red tipped moss, rockweed, rust, salt marsh, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, slob land, slough, smut, sough, sphagnum moss, succulent, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, toadstool, vetch, via, vine, wallow, wash, wort, wrack
Etymology
From Middle English mos, from Old English mōs (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musan (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūs-, *meus- (“moss”). Cognate with Old High German mos (German Moss, “moss”), Icelandic mosi, Danish mos, Swedish mossa, Latin muscus (“moss”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /mɒs/, SAMPA: /mQs/
- (US) enPR: mäs, IPA: /mɑs/, SAMPA: /mAs/
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Audio (US) noicon (file) - Rhymes: -ɒs
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