moss

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Etymology [edit]

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 (German Moos, moss), Icelandic mosi, Danish mos, Swedish mossa, Latin muscus (moss).

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moss (countable and uncountable; plural mosses)

  1. (now chiefly UK regional) A bog; a swamp.
  2. Any of various small green plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones etc.; now specifically, a plant of the division Bryophyta (formerly Musci).
  3. (countable) A type or species of such plant.

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  • The plural form mosses is used when more than one kind of moss is meant. The singular moss is used referring to a collection of moss plants of the same kind.

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Verb [edit]

moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)

  1. (intransitive) To become covered with moss.
    An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
  2. (transitive) To cover (something) with moss.

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