moss
UK/mɒs//mɔs/
moss noun: any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).
Noun (1)
moss (countable and uncountable, plural mosses)
- Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).
- Another says you should tense your body, look up in the air, and think about cool moss.1989, Michael Sky, Dancing with the Fire, page 54
- A kind or species of such plants.
- Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
- Spanish moss
- Irish moss
- A bog; a fen.
- the mosses of the Scottish border
- Loynton Moss
Verb (1)
moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)
- To become covered with moss.
- An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
- To cover (something) with moss.
Noun (2)
moss (countable and uncountable, plural mosses)
- A spectacular catch made over 1 or multiple defenders, typically a jump ball.
- Bro, that moss was insane!
Verb (2)
moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)
- To make a spectacular catch over 1 or multiple defenders.
- You just got mossed!
Verb (3)
moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Moss
Moss
- A surname.
- A village and civil parish (served by Moss and District Parish Council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5914).
- A coastal town and municipality in Viken county, Norway.
- Former name of Moss Landing, California.
- An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, Tennessee.
- A former community in Gilmer County, West Virginia.
Noun (3) capitalized: MOSS
MOSS pl (plural only)
- Acronym of MIME Object Security Services.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: MOSS
MOSS
- Acronym of Map Overlay and Statistical System.
- Acronym of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
- Acronym of Market Oriented Sector Selective talks.
moss meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
moss in Hindi
- plants of the division Bryophyta
- काई kāī, हरिता haritā
moss in Marathi
- मॉस, मॉस करण्यासाठी
moss in Urdu
- plants of the division Bryophyta
- کائی kā'ī
moss in Bengali
- plants of the division Bryophyta
- শৈবাল śōibal
More languagesFewer languages
- moss in Telugu
- నాచు
- moss in Malayalam
- മോസ്, മോസ്സ്, മോസ് ചെയ്യാൻ
- moss in Gujarati
- સેવાળ sevāḷ
- moss in Sanskrit
- शैवल śaivala, शैवाल śaivāla
- moss in Assamese
- শেলাই xelai, মছ mos, মছ-শেলাই mos-xelai
- moss in Nepali
- मोस, मोस गर्न
- moss in Tagalog
- lumot
- moss in Arabic
- أُشْنَة ʔušna, طُحْلُب ṭuḥlub
- moss in Malay
- lumut
- moss in Indonesian
- lumut
- moss in Persian
- خزه xaze
- moss in Thai
- มอสส์ mɔ́ɔt
- moss in Vietnamese
- rêu
- moss in Myanmar
- ရေညှိ rehnyi.
Examples of moss in a sentence
- She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.
- The phytochemistry of mosses is very different from that of other plants.
- Cloud forests often exhibit an abundance of mosses covering the ground and vegetation.
Synonyms of moss
Forms of moss
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mosses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mosses |
| present participle | mossing |
| past participle | mossed |
| past | mossed |
Origin of moss
From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą (“bog, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian möösk (“moss”), Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Alemannic German Mies (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss; lichen; marsh, swamp”), German and Luxembourgish Moos (“moss”), Low German Moss (“moss”), Danish mos (“moss”), mose (“bog; moor”), Faroese and Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Norwegian Bokmål mose (“moss”), Norwegian Nynorsk mose, Swedish mossa, mosse (“raised bog”); also Latin muscus (“moss”), Bulgarian мъх (măh, “moss”), Czech and Polish mech (“moss”), Macedonian мов (mov, “moss”), Russian and Ukrainian мох (mox, “moss”), Serbo-Croatian ма̀ховина, màhovina (“moss”), Slovak mach (“moss”), Slovene mah (“moss; raised bog; marsh; velvet; down, fluff”), Armenian մամուռ (mamuṙ, “moss”). Doublet of mousse.
Named after Randy Moss, American football wide receiver known for making spectacular catches over defenders.
Words formed from moss
- Moss Vale
- American moss
- animal moss
- apple moss
- apple-moss
- arctic moss
- a rolling stone gathers no moss
- Ashton Moss
- ball moss
- beard moss
- bear moss
- besom moss
- bird's-nest moss
- black moss
- blanket moss
- bog moss
- bristle moss
- broom moss
- Canary moss
- caribou moss
- carrageen moss
- cedar moss
- ceratodon moss
- Ceylon moss
- chalice moss
- Chat Moss
- chin-cough moss
- Christmas moss
- club moss
- club-moss
- club-foot moss
- common moss
- coral moss
- cord moss
- Cornish path moss
- Corsican moss
- crape moss
- cup moss
- cup-moss
- cypress moss
- ditch moss
- draw moss
- duck moss
- dung moss
- dyer's moss
- elf-cap moss
- enmoss
- fairy moss
- feather moss
- fern moss
- film moss
- fire moss
- fir moss
- Florida moss
- flowering moss (Pyxidanthera barbulata; Portulaca grandiflora;
- fountain apple moss
- fountain moss
- giant moss
- gold moss
- golden moss
Phrases with moss
- Moss Bay
- moss bug
- moss out
- sea moss
- urn moss
- hair moss
- Moss Bank
- moss bugs
- moss crab
- moss frog
- moss lawn
- moss mite
52 more phrasesFewer phrases
- moss pink
- moss rose
- Moss Side
- peat moss
- rock moss
- rose moss
- silk moss
- tree moss
- wall moss
- house moss
- Irish moss
- moss agate
- Moss Beach
- moss frogs
- moss green
- moss lawns
- moss mites
- moss phlox
- moss pinks
- moss roses
- pearl moss
- pixie moss
- spike moss
- Johnny Moss
- miners moss
- moss agates
- moss animal
- moss greens
- moss locust
- moss piglet
- moss stitch
- Iceland moss
- miner's moss
- miners' moss
- moss animals
- moss campion
- Moss Landing
- moss locusts
- moss phloxes
- moss piglets
- Spanish moss
- moss campions
- moss stitches
- reindeer moss
- staghorn moss
- moss saxifrage
- stairstep moss
- heath star moss
- alpine club moss
- hoary fringe moss
- woolly fringe moss
- Indian feather moss
Words that rhyme with moss
Questions about moss
- What does moss mean?
- Moss means any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).
- What is moss in Hindi?
- Moss in Hindi is काई (kāī), हरिता (haritā). See Moss meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is moss?
- Moss can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce moss?
- Moss is pronounced /mɒs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of moss?
- The plural of moss is mosses.
Words near moss in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: moss (page history and authors); Moss (page history and authors); MOSS (page history and authors); moss (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); moss (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); moss (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); moss (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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