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Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) One of the buds of mosses.

Tundra :: Tundra (n.) A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia..

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

Muscales :: Muscales (n. pl.) An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna..

Mattress :: Mattress (n.) A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened..

Pteridophyta :: Pteridophyta (n. pl.) A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia..

Mossiness :: Mossiness (n.) The state of being mossy.

Arboreous :: Arboreous (a.) Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss..

Fringe :: Fringe (n.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.

Enmossed :: Enmossed (a.) Covered with moss; mossed.

Proembryo :: Proembryo (n.) The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses..

Cetrarin :: Cetrarin (n.) A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance..

Perigone :: Perigone (n.) In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower..

Pleurocarp :: Pleurocarp (n.) Any pleurocarpic moss.

Mossy :: Mossy (superl.) Resembling moss; as, mossy green..

Deoperculate :: Deoperculate (a.) Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.

Carrigeen :: Carrigeen (n.) A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce..

Tillandsia :: Tillandsia (n.) A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses..

Apophysis :: Apophysis (n.) An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses..

Strumatic :: Struma (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses..

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