see|Moss
English
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Etymology
OE. mos; akin to Anglo-Saxon meós, German moos, Old High German mos, mios, Icelandic mosi, Danish mos, Swedish mossa, Latin muscus.
Pronunciation
a|UK IPA|/m�s/, SAMPA|/mQs/
a|US AHD|mäs, IPA|/m��s/, SAMPA|/mA:s/
audio|en-us-moss.ogg|Audio (US)
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�s|-�s
Noun
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- 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.
Usage 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
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American moss
animal moss
apple-moss
a rolling stone gathers no moss
beard-moss
black moss
bog moss
carrageen moss
Ceylon moss
chalice moss
chin-cough moss
club moss, club-moss, club-foot moss
Corsican moss
cup-moss
enmoss
film moss
Florida moss
flowering moss
hair-moss
hairy moss
head moss
heath-moss
horned moss
Iceland moss
idle-moss
Irish moss
Jaffna moss
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long-moss
moss-agate
moss-animal, moss-animalcule
moss-back, mossback
moss-backed, mossbacked, mossy-backed
moss-bag
moss-bank
moss-basket
moss-bass
moss-bee
moss-berry, mossberry
mossbluiter
moss-box
moss campion
moss-carder, moss-carder bee
moss-cheeper
moss-copper
moss-coral
moss-corn
moss crêpe
moss-crop
moss-earth
mossed
mosser
mossery
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moss-fiber, moss-fibre
moss-flow
mossful
moss-gold
moss green
moss-grown, mossgrown
moss-hag, moss-hagg
moss-hagger
moss hair
moss-head
moss horn
moss-house
mossify
mossland
mossless
moss-litter
moss-locust
moss-oak
moss opal
moss-peat
moss pink
mossplant
moss-polyp
moss-rake
moss-reeve
moss rose
moss-rush
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moss-seat
moss-starch
moss stitch
moss-tenant
moss-trooper
mosstroopery
moss-trooping
moss-whin
moss-willow
moss-wood
moss-work
mossy
oak moss
pearl moss
peat-moss
reindeer moss
rose moss
round-leaved feather-moss
salt rock moss
scale-moss
sea-moss
snake moss
Spanish moss
spike moss
staghorn moss, stag's horn moss
tree-moss
unmossed
white moss
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Translations
trans-top|plants of the division Bryophyta
Albanian: myshk m
Catalan: molsa f
Chinese: �� (traditional and simplified) (qīng tái)
Croatian: mahovina f
Czech: mech m
Esperanto: musko
Fijian: lumi
Finnish: sammal
French: mousse#French|mousse f
German: Moos n
Hawaiian: limu
Hungarian: moha
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Ilocano: lumot
Indonesian: lumut
Italian: musco m
Japanese: �� (� koke)
Korean: �� iggi
Latin: muscus m
Maori: rimu
Polish: mech m
Slovak: mach m
Spanish: musgo m
Swedish: mossa c
Welsh: mwsogl
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trans-top|a clump or patch of such plants
Finnish: sammalikko
French: mousse f
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Spanish: musgo m
Swedish: mossa c
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trans-top|any of various similar plants
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Verb
en-verb|mosses|mossing|mossed
- intransitive To become covered with moss.
#:An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
- transitive To cover (something) with moss.
Translations
trans-top|to become covered with moss
Finnish: sammaloitua
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trans-top|cover (something) with moss
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See also
bryophyte
lichen
muscoid
External links
w:moss|Wikipedia article on moss
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