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   moss

   /mɒs/

   noun

   • 1. a small flowerless green plant that lacks true roots, growing in damp habitats and reproducing by means of spores released from stalked capsules: "the trees are overgrown with vines and moss"
   • ▪ used in names of algae, lichens, and higher plants resembling moss, e.g. reindeer moss, Ceylon moss, Spanish moss.
   • 2. a green colour like that of moss.
   • 3. a bog, especially a peat bog. Scottish, Northern English

   verb

   • 1. cover with moss: literary "nature has mossed the gravel walks and roads"

   Word Origin Old Englishmos ‘bog or moss’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch mos and German Moos.

   Derivatives

   • 1. mosslike adjective

   Scrabble Points: 6

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