MOSS 音标拼音: [m'ɔs]
n . 苔藓,泥沼
vt . 使长满苔藓
苔藓,泥沼使长满苔藓
moss n 1 :
tiny leafy -
stemmed flowerless plants 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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Moss \
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OHG .
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Icel .
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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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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
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