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
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing 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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1. A delicate, low-growing, cryptogamous plant of the class Musci. 2. Popularly any one of a number of lichens and seaweeds.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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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
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To cover with moss.
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A natural order of small herbaceous plants, the musci; a cryptogamic plant; a bog; a place where peat is found.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To cover with moss.
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A family of plants with simple branching stems and numerous narrow leaves, found growing on rocks, trees, amongst grass, &c.; a bog; a morass.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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