MOSS
\mˈɒs], \mˈɒs], \m_ˈɒ_s]\
Definitions of MOSS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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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A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
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To cover or overgrow with moss.
By Oddity Software
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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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A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
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To cover or overgrow with moss.
By Noah Webster.
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A natural order of soft plants growing on the ground, rocks, trees, etc., and having simple narrow leaves; a lichen; a soft peaty swamp.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A family of cryptogamic plants with a branching stem and narrow, simple leaves: a piece of ground covered with moss: a bog.
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To cover with moss.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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