moss
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
moss/mɒs/
▶noun
- 1 a small flowerless green plant which grows in low carpets or rounded cushions in damp habitats and reproduces by means of spores. [Class Musci.]
■ used in names of algae, lichens, and other low-growing plants, e.g. reindeer moss.
- 2 Scottish & N. English a peat bog.
– derivatives
mossiness noun,
mossy adjective (mossier, mossiest).
mossiness noun,
mossy adjective (mossier, mossiest).
– origin OE mos ‘bog or moss’, of Gmc origin.
'moss' also found in these Oxford entries:
bedeguar
- bog moss
- bryology
- bryophyte
- bryozoan
- carrageen
- cryptogam
- Iceland moss
- Irish moss
- lid
- litmus
- mire
- moss agate
- moss animal
- moss hag
- moss stitch
- mousse
- nerve
- operculum
- peat moss
- reindeer moss
- rolling stone
- Spanish moss
- sphagnum
- thatch
