moss


Definition: Meaning of, moss in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / mɒs /

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moss mosses
[uncountable and countable]
  1. a very small green plant that grows in a thick soft furry mass on wet soil, trees, or rocks
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moss used in phrases

  • Iceland moss (noun)
    1. lichen with branched flattened partly erect thallus that grows in mountainous and Arctic regions; used as a medicine or food for humans and livestock; a source of glycerol
  • Irish moss (noun)
    1. dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America
  • Moss Hart (noun)
    1. 1904-1961 united States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman
  • Moss Side
    1. a poor area of central Manchester. British people think of Moss Side as a dangerous place where there are GANG s (= groups of violent criminals) who sell drugs
  • Spanish moss (noun)
    1. dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
  • acrocarpous moss (noun)
    1. and hence the capsule a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium
  • arctic moss (noun)
    1. an erect greyish branching lichen of Arctic and even some north temperate regions constituting the chief food for reindeer and caribou and sometimes being eaten by humans
  • beard moss (noun)
    1. greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees
  • black moss (noun)
    1. dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
  • bog moss (noun)
    1. any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
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