moss
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą (“bog, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian möösk (“moss”), Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Alemannic German Mies (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss; lichen; marsh, swamp”), German and Luxembourgish Moos (“moss”), Low German Moss (“moss”), Danish mos (“moss”), mose (“bog; moor”), Faroese and Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Norwegian Bokmål mose (“moss”), Norwegian Nynorsk mose, Swedish mossa, mosse (“raised bog”); also Latin muscus (“moss”), Bulgarian мъх (mǎh, “moss”), Czech and Polish mech (“moss”), Macedonian мов (mov, “moss”), Russian and Ukrainian мох (mox, “moss”), Serbo-Croatian ма̀ховина, màhovina (“moss”), Slovak mach (“moss”), Slovene mah (“moss; raised bog; marsh; velvet; down, fluff”), Armenian մամուռ (mamuṙ, “moss”). Doublet of mousse.
Inflected forms:
form: mosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mossed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Another says you should tense your body, look up in the air, and think about cool moss.
gloss: A kind or species of such plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Spanish moss
Irish moss
club moss
gloss: A bog; a fen.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
regional
uncountable
examples: the mosses of the Scottish border
Loynton Moss
gloss: To become covered with moss.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
gloss: To cover (something) with moss.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: muscoid
Derived words: American moss
animal moss
apple moss
apple-moss
arctic moss
a rolling stone gathers no moss
Ashton Moss
ball moss
beard moss
bear moss
besom moss
bird's-nest moss
black moss
blanket moss
bog moss
bristle moss
broom moss
Canary moss
caribou moss
carrageen moss
cedar moss
ceratodon moss
Ceylon moss
chalice moss
Chat Moss
chin-cough moss
Christmas moss
club moss
club-moss
club-foot moss
common moss
coral moss
cord moss
Cornish path moss
Corsican moss
crape moss
cup moss
cup-moss
cypress moss
ditch moss
draw moss
duck moss
dung moss
dyer's moss
elf-cap moss
enmoss
fairy moss
feather moss
fern moss
film moss
fire moss
fir moss
Florida moss
flowering moss (Pyxidanthera barbulata; Portulaca grandiflora;
fountain apple moss
fountain moss
giant moss
gold moss
golden moss
gold spoon moss
granite moss
gray moss
haircap moss
hair moss
hairy moss
hanging moss
head moss
heath-moss
hoary fringe moss
horned moss
house moss
Iceland moss
idle-moss
Indian feather moss
Irish moss
Jaffna moss
Java moss
long moss
luminous moss
lung moss
maidenhair moss
miner's moss
miners moss
miners' moss
moss-agate
moss agate
moss animal
moss animalcule
moss-backed
mossbacked
mossy-backed
moss-back
mossback
moss-bag
moss-bank
Moss Bank
moss-basket
moss bass
moss bee
moss berry
mossberry)
mossbluiter
moss-box
moss bug
moss bush
moss campion
moss carder
moss-carder bee
moss-cheeper
moss-copper
moss coral
moss corn
moss crab
moss crêpe
moss crop
moss-draped
moss duck
moss-earth
mossed
mossen
mosser
mossery
moss fern
moss-fiber
moss-fibre
moss-flow
moss forest
moss frog
mossful
moss gold
moss green
moss-grown
mossgrown
moss-hagger
moss-hag
moss-hagg
moss hair
moss-head
moss horn
moss-house
mossify
mossland
moss lawn
mossless
mosslike
moss-litter
moss-locust
moss locust
moss mite
moss-oak
moss opal
moss-peat
moss phlox
moss piglet
moss pink
mossplant
moss-polyp
moss-rake
moss-reeve
moss rose
moss-rush
moss saxifrage
moss-seat
Moss Side
moss-starch
moss stitch
moss-tenant
moss-trooper
mosstroopery
moss-trooping
moss whin
moss willow
moss-wood
moss-work
mossy
muskeag moss
oak moss
old moss
pearl moss
peat moss
pigeon-wheat moss
pine-moss
pixie moss
plume moss (Hypnum crista-castrensis
purple horn toothed moss
rainbow moss
reindeer moss
rock moss
rose moss
round-leaved feather-moss
salt rock moss
scale-moss
sea moss
silk moss
snake moss
southern moss
Spanish moss
spike moss
split moss
springy turf moss
square goose-neck moss
staghorn moss
stag's horn moss
stairstep moss
starry thyme-moss
stellar calcareous moss
sun moss
swamp moss
thrush moss
tree moss
Turk's-cap moss
unmossed
urn moss
velvet moss
wall moss
wall screw-moss
warrior moss
water moss
white moss
willow moss
wolf's moss
woolly fringe moss
worm moss
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