Moss

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moss \Moss\ (m[o^]s; 115), n. [OE. mos; akin to AS. me['o]s, D.
     mos, G. moos, OHG. mos, mios, Icel. mosi, Dan. mos, Sw.
     mossa, Russ. mokh', L. muscus. Cf. {Muscoid}.]
     1. (Bot.) 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.
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     Note: The term moss is also popularly applied to many other
           small cryptogamic plants, particularly lichens, species
           of which are called tree moss, rock moss, coral moss,
           etc. Fir moss and club moss are of the genus
           {Lycopodium}. See {Club moss}, under {Club}, and
           {Lycopodium}.
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     2. A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses
        of the Scottish border.
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     Note: Moss is used with participles in the composition of
           words which need no special explanation; as,
           moss-capped, moss-clad, moss-covered, moss-grown, etc.
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     {Black moss}. See under {Black}, and {Tillandsia}.
  
     {Bog moss}. See {Sphagnum}.
  
     {Feather moss}, any moss branched in a feathery manner, esp.
        several species of the genus {Hypnum}.
  
     {Florida moss}, {Long moss}, or {Spanish moss}. See
        {Tillandsia}.
  
     {Iceland moss}, a lichen. See {Iceland Moss}.
  
     {Irish moss}, a seaweed. See {Carrageen}.
  
     {Moss agate} (Min.), a variety of agate, containing brown,
        black, or green mosslike or dendritic markings, due in
        part to oxide of manganese. Called also {Mocha stone}.
  
     {Moss animal} (Zool.), a bryozoan.
  
     {Moss berry} (Bot.), the small cranberry ({Vaccinium
        Oxycoccus}).
  
     {Moss campion} (Bot.), a kind of mosslike catchfly ({Silene
        acaulis}), with mostly purplish flowers, found on the
        highest mountains of Europe and America, and within the
        Arctic circle.
  
     {Moss land}, land produced accumulation of aquatic plants,
        forming peat bogs of more or less consistency, as the
        water is grained off or retained in its pores.
  
     {Moss pink} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Phlox} ({Phlox
        subulata}), growing in patches on dry rocky hills in the
        Middle United States, and often cultivated for its
        handsome flowers. --Gray.
  
     {Moss rose} (Bot.), a variety of rose having a mosslike
        growth on the stalk and calyx. It is said to be derived
        from the Provence rose.
  
     {Moss rush} (Bot.), a rush of the genus {Juncus} ({Juncus
        squarrosus}).
  
     {Scale moss}. See {Hepatica}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moss \Moss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mossed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Mossing}.]
     To cover or overgrow with moss.
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           An oak whose boughs were mossed with age. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  moss
       n : tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "moss":
     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
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Moss, TN
    Zip code(s): 38575