moss
English
Etymology
From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūs-, *meus- (“moss”). Cognate with Old High German mos (“moss”) (German Moos), Icelandic mosi, Danish mos, Swedish mossa, Latin muscus (“moss”), Russian мох (mox, “moss”),[1] Polish mech.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mɒs/
- (US) enPR: môs, IPA(key): /mɔs/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: mäs, IPA(key): /mɑs/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒs
- Rhymes: -ɔːs
Noun
moss (countable and uncountable, plural mosses)
- Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).
- Hypernym: bryophyte
- (countable) A kind or species of such plants.
- (informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
- (now chiefly Britain regional) A bog; a fen.
- the mosses of the Scottish border
Usage notes
Derived terms
terms derived from the noun moss
- American moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
- animal moss (Bryozoa)
- apple-moss (Bartramia spp.)
- arctic moss (Cladonia rangiferina)
- a rolling stone gathers no moss
- ball moss (Tillandsia recurvata)
- bear moss (Polytrichum juniperinum)
- beard moss (Usnea spp., Schistidium apocarpum et al)
- besom moss (Polytrichum juniperinum)
- bird's-nest moss (Selaginella lepidophylla)
- black moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
- blanket moss (Spirogyra spp, Cladophora spp.)
- bog moss (Sphagnum moss, Mayaca plant)
- broom moss (Dicranum scoparium)
- Canary moss (Parmelia perlata, now Parmotrema perlatum)
- caribou moss (Cladonia rangiferina)
- carrageen moss (Chondrus crispus)
- cedar moss (Ceratophyllum demersum)
- ceratodon moss (Ceratodon spp.)
- Ceylon moss (Plocaria candida?, Gracilaria lichenoides)
- chalice moss (Cladonia)
- chin-cough moss (Cladonia)
- club moss, club-moss, club-foot moss (Lycopodiaceae)
- common moss (Polytrichum commune)
- coral moss (Nertera granadensis)
- cord moss (Funaria spp.)
- Cornish path moss (Ditrichum cornubicum)
- Corsican moss (Alsidium helminthochorton)
- crape moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
- cup-moss (Cladonia)
- cypress moss (Hypnum cupressiforme; Lycopodium alpinum)
- ditch moss (Elodea spp.)
- draw moss (Eriophorum vaginatum)
- duck moss (Potamogeton pectinatus)
- dyer's moss (Rocella tinctoria)
- enmoss
- feather moss (Hyphnum spp. et al)
- fern moss (Thuidium)
- film moss (Hymenostomum)
- fir moss (Lycopodium selago)
- fire moss (Ceratodon purpureus)
- Florida moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
- flowering moss (Pyxidanthera barbulata; Portulaca grandiflora; (Sedum pulchellum)
- fountain moss (Fontinalis spp.; Philonotis fontana)
- giant moss (Dawsonia spp.)
- gold moss/golden moss (Sedum acre)
- gold spoon moss (Calliergon richardsonii)
- granite moss (Chondrus crispus)
- gray moss (Tillandsia usneoides; Usnea spp.)
- hair moss, hairy moss (Polytrichum)
- haircap moss (Polytrichum juniperinum)
- hanging moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
- head moss (Usnea spp., Schistidium apocarpum et al)
- heath-moss (Polytrichum)
- horned moss (Asplenium septentrionale)
- house moss
- Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica)
- idle-moss
- Irish moss (Chondrus crispus)
- Jaffna moss (Umbilicaria murina, Umbilicaria grisea)
- Japanese moss (Soleorolia soleriolii)
- Java moss (Hypnaceae
, possibly Taxiphyllum barbieri)
- long moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
- luminous moss (Schistostega osmundacea)
- lung moss (esp. Pulmonaria officinalis)
- maidenhair moss (Alectoria sarmentosa, Fissidens adianthoides)
- moss-agate
- moss animal, moss animalcule (Bryozoa)
- moss-back, mossback
- moss-backed, mossbacked, mossy-backed
- moss-bag
- moss-bank
- moss-basket
- moss bass (Micropterus salmoides)
- moss bee (Bombus muscorum)
- moss berry, mossberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
- mossbluiter (Botaurinae)
- moss-box
- moss bush (Cassiope hypnoides)
- moss campion (Silene acaulis)
- moss carder, moss-carder bee (Bombus muscorum)
- moss-cheeper (Anthus pratensis; Emberiza schoeniclus)
- moss-copper (Mielichhoferia spp.)
- moss coral (Bryozoa)
- moss corn (Potentilla anserina)
- moss crab (Loxorhynchus crispatus)
- moss crêpe
- moss crop (Eriophorum vaginatum; Eriophorum polystachion; Potentilla anserina; Scirpus caespitosus, now Eleocharis palustris)
- moss duck (Anas platyrhynchos)
- moss-earth
- mossed
- mossen
- mosser
- mossery
- moss fern (Polypodium)
- moss-fiber, moss-fibre
- moss-flow
- moss forest
- moss frog (Rhacophoridae)
- mossful
- moss gold (Clavaria muscoides, now Clavulinopsis corniculata)
- moss green
- moss-grown, mossgrown
- moss-hag, moss-hagg
- moss-hagger
- moss hair
- moss-head
- moss horn
- moss-house
- mossify
- mossland
- mossless
- mosslike
- moss-litter
- moss-locust (Robinia hispida)
- moss-oak
- moss opal
- moss-peat
- moss phlox (Phlox subulata)
- moss pink (Phlox subulata)
- mossplant (Cassiope hypnoides)
- moss-polyp (Bryozoa)
- moss-rake
- moss-reeve
- moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora)
- moss-rush (Juncus bryoides, Juncus squarrosus)
- moss-seat
- moss-starch
- moss stitch
- moss-tenant
- moss-trooper
- mosstroopery
- moss-trooping
- moss whin (Genista anglica)
- moss willow (Salix musca)
- moss-wood
- moss-work
- mossy
- muskeag moss (Sphagnum spp.)
- oak moss (Evernia prunastri)
- old moss
- pearl moss (Chondrus crispus)
- peat moss (Sphagnum)
- pigeon-wheat moss (Polytrichum)
- plume moss (Hypnum crista-castrensis
- purple horn toothed moss (Ceratodon purpureus)
- rainbow moss (Selaginella uncinata)
- reindeer moss (Cladonia rangiferina)
- rock moss (Chondrus crispus)
- rose moss (Portulacca grandiflora)
- round-leaved feather-moss (Rhynchostegium rotundifolium)
- salt rock moss (Chondrus crispus)
- scale-moss (Jungermanniales)
- sea-moss (Chondrus crispus, Gracilaria spp.)
- snake moss (Lycopodium clavatum)
- southern moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
- Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
- spike moss (Selaginellaceae)
- split moss (Andreaeales)
- springy turf moss (Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus)
- square goose-neck moss (Rhytidiadelphys squarrosus)
- staghorn moss, stag's horn moss (Lycopodium clavatum)
- starry thyme-moss/stellar calcareous moss (Mnium spp.)
- sun moss (Portulacca grandiflora)
- swamp moss (Sphagnum spp.)
- thrush moss (Peltigera apthosa)
- tree moss (esp. Climacium)
- Turk's-cap moss (Physcomitrium turbinatum)
- unmossed
- urn moss (Physcomitrium)
- velvet moss (Gyrophora muring)
- water moss (Fontinalis spp.)
- white moss (Leucobryum)
- willow moss (Hypnaceae, possibly Taxiphyllum barbieri)
- wolf's moss (Letharia vulpina)
- worm moss (Alsidium helminthochorton)
Translations
plants of the division Bryophyta
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a kind or species of such plants
(informal) plant of seemingly simple structure
bog — see bog
Verb
moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)
- (intransitive) To become covered with moss.
- An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with moss.
Translations
to become covered with moss
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cover (something) with moss
See also
References
- A New English dictionary on historical principles, Volume 6, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions, editors, Clarendon Press, 1908, pages 684-6
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmoʃː] (Do not confuse with mos (“to wash”).)
Audio (file)
Verb
moss
- second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of mos
- Moss fogat! - Brush your teeth!
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