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noun (es, -)
  1. Any of various small green plants of the division Bryophyta (formerly class Musci).
  2. A clump or patch of such plants covering the ground or other surface.
  3. Any of various other non-related plants, algae, or fungi of a similar appearance.
Translations: 
  • French: mousse
    (trans-mid)
  • German: Moos
  • Italian: musco
  • Spanish: musgo
verb (mosses, mossing, mossed)
  1. (intransitive) To become covered with moss.
An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
  1. (transitive) To cover (something) with moss.
Translations: 
    Etymology: mos; akin to Anglo-Saxon meós, German moos, Old High German mos, mios, Icelandic mosi, Danish mos, Swedish mossa, Latin muscus.


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