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Moss /mɒs/ n
moss /mɔs, mɑs/USA pronunciation
n. [uncountable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Plant Biologya tiny, leafy-stemmed plant that grows in a thick mass on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
moss
(môs, mos),USA pronunciation n.
v.t.
moss′like′, adj.
Moss (môs, mos),USA pronunciation n.
- Plant Biologyany tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
- Plant Biologya growth of such plants.
- Plant Biologyany of various similar plants, as Iceland moss or club moss.
- Scottish Terms[Chiefly Scot. and North Eng.]a swamp or bog.
v.t.
- to cover with a growth of moss:to moss a crumbling wall.
- bef. 1000; Middle English mos(se), Old English mos moss, bog; akin to German Moos, Old Norse mȳrr mire
Moss (môs, mos),USA pronunciation n.
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moss /mɒs/ n
- Also called: mossplant any bryophyte of the phylum Bryophyta, typically growing in dense mats on trees, rocks, moist ground, etc
See also peat moss - a clump or growth of any of these plants
- any of various similar but unrelated plants, such as club moss, Spanish moss, Ceylon moss, rose moss, and reindeer moss
- Scot Northern English a peat bog or marsh
'Moss' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
acrogen
- bog moss
- bromeliad
- bryophyte
- bryozoan
- coma
- foot
- Hart
- Kaufman
- litmus
- lycopodium
- mire
- moor
- moss agate
- moss rose
- moss stitch
- mosstrooper
- muskeg
- old man's beard
- operculum
- peat moss
- peristome
- pink
- portulaca
- reindeer moss
- Spanish moss
- sphagnum
- struma
- theca
- trabecula
- villus
- affect
- air layering
- amphithecium
- beard moss
- blotch
- bryo-
- carrageen
- Ceylon moss
- club moss
- colonial animal
- cushion pink
- dendrite
- ditch-moss
- dust ball
- dyer's moss
- Florida moss
- flowering moss
- grieshoch
- ground pine