Definition of moss

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Moss (n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border..

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Jungermannia :: "Jungermannia (n.) A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceae..
Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns..
Muscoid :: Muscoid (a.) Mosslike; resembling moss.
Strumatic :: Struma (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses..
Acotyledonous :: Acotyledonous (a.) Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc..
Emuscation :: Emuscation (n.) A freeing from moss.
Ventral :: Ventral (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
Arboreous :: Arboreous (a.) Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss..
Sphagnous :: Sphagnous (a.) Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss..
Synomocy :: Synoecious (a.) Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle..
Goemin :: Goemin (n.) A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.
Calyptra :: Calyptra (n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body..
Mossbunker :: Mossbunker (n.) The menhaded.
Wolf''s-foot :: Wolf's-foot (n.) Club moss. See Lycopodium.
Lycopodite :: Lycopodite (n.) An old name for a fossil club moss.
Cup-moss :: Cup-moss (n.) A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia..
Lid :: Lid (n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.
Sea Moss :: Sea moss () Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.
Sphagnum :: Sphagnum (n.) A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.
Flower :: Flower (n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla..
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