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• She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.From the entry mix up
• The phytochemistry of mosses is very different from that of other plants.From the entry phytochemistry
• Cloud forests often exhibit an abundance of mosses covering the ground and vegetation.From the entry cloud forest
• The moss grew in a hairlike mass over the rocks.From the entry hairlike
• Most soils derived from Sphagnum mosses are fibrisols.From the entry fibrisol
• Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures.2014 October 26, Jeff Howell, “Is the Japanese knotweed threat exaggerated? Our troubleshooter calls for calm about Japanese knotweed in…. From the entry root
• But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.2014 October 26, Jeff Howell, “Is the Japanese knotweed threat exaggerated? Our troubleshooter calls for calm about Japanese knotweed in…. From the entry root
• Girls, smokes, bit of smack, mossing, tweedling; a very democratic villain, Mr Salvatore.2014, Dan Kavanagh, Duffy. From the entry tweedle
• Such glacier mice are more or less spheroidal mosses which lie unattached on the ice surface.2014, James H. Dickson, Robert E. Johnson, “Mosses and the beginning of plant succession on the Walker Glacier, southeastern Alaska”, in…. From the entry glacier mouse
• I kicked off my shoes and wiggled my toes on the soft moss.2013, Julia Crane, Talia Jager, chapter 7, in Broken Promise (A Between Worlds Novel; 2), [Clarksville, Tenn.]: Valknut Press, →ISBN. From the entry squish
• Odor of earth and moss, the old brick dark and crumblesome.2010, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree. From the entry crumblesome
• Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.2008, Andrea M. J. Coronato, Fernando Coronato, Elizabeth Mazzoni, Miriam Vásquez, “The Physical Geography of Patagonia and Tierra del…. From the entry cirque
• They passed alder swamps and bamboo groves and pale green reindeer moss.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 870. From the entry reindeer moss
• Black moss, also known as seaweed hair, looks like fine black hair.1999, Grace Young, The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing, page 126. From the entry black moss
• The Tortula-Crossidium micro-zone (Figures 5.5) is dominated by acrocarpous mosses with a colonist strategy.1998, Harald Kürschner, Shahina A. Ghazanfar, “Bryophytes and Lichens”, in Shahina A. Ghazanfar, Martin Fisher, editors, Vegetation of the…. From the entry pauciennial
• She had an old tick for mattress that she stuffed with dried moss.1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 101. From the entry tick
• Sophia landed on her behind on the soft moss that lined the river bank.1995, Marilyn Seguin, The Bell Keeper: The story of Sophia and the Massacre of the Indians at Gnadenhutten, Ohio, in 1782, page 8. From the entry sophie
• A tmema cell, formed in the ageing chloronema of moss protonema, represents a means of propagation.1994, Satish C. Bhatla, Moss protonema differentiation, page 48. From the entry tmema
• Moss polsters were sampled using an equivalent surface cross-section area to that of the traps.1991, P. R. Cundill, “Comparisons of moss polster and pollen trap data: a pilot study”, in Grana, volume 30, number 2, →DOI. From the entry polster
• In association with mosses, Protozoa may be divided into three types, namely bryobiont, bryophile and omnicolous.1981, Symposium on Qinghai Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, Geological and Ecological Studies of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau: Environmental and ecology…. From the entry bryobiont
• His head was shaped like a busby, a high solid arrogant rock, covered with thick moss.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry busby
• The ground, where there happened to be any, was covered with spongy moss, and mucous lichens.1907, Eclectic Magazine, page 74. From the entry paludinous
• How sparkly the weeds are between the stones, and the moss on the roof—oh, and the flowers!1905 January – 1906 January, E[dith] Nesbit, “Peter’s Coal Mine”, in The Railway Children, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry sparkly
• Pyxie is moss-like in appearance, and hence is sometimes called "flowering moss."1905, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas, page 462. From the entry pyxie
• In the ryoboku style, Taxiphyllum barbieri or Java moss (Fig. 10) is preferred to cover woods and tree roots.2023 October, AQUASCAPING AND WATERSCAPES AS AN UNDERWATER LANDSCAPE ART, page 13. From the entry ryoboku
• Paths scratched in the mosses on tree trunks mark the presence of drepanosaurs, another of Madygen's evolutionary oddities.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 161. From the entry drepanosaur
• Glacier mice can be composed of different moss species.2020 May 22, Nell Greenfieldboyce, “Herd Of Fuzzy Green 'Glacier Mice' Baffles Scientists”, in NPR. From the entry glacier mouse
• The black-capped piprites Piprites pileata builds a spherical moss nest.2020, JJ Atwood, WR Buck, “Recent literature on bryophytes”, in The Bryologist, BioOne, page 123(2). From the entry piprites
• The thick mat of dead plants forms sphagnum moss and peat, which is where we get our peat moss.2019 February 19, Sincere Humphrey, Freshwater Microbiology, Scientific e-Resources, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry bog
• If you have ever had a pond you will know Azolla, a.k.a. pondweed, duckweed fern or fairy moss.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76. From the entry pondweed
• Moss spidered across the stone, fresh green.2013, Mary Gentle, Rats and Gargoyles, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry spider
• Flat ground at the top of Allt Creag an Leth-choin carries prostrate vegetation dominated by woolly fringe moss with some crowberry.2012, Adam Watson, Human Impacts on the Northern Cairngorms, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry woolly fringe moss
• Examples of acid vegetation include specific plant associations dominated by heath, sphagnum moss and many other acidophile plants.unknown - Unknown author. FORMATION OF PEATS: Type of Vegetation. Retrieved 2005-03-13. From the entry acidophile
• Deadfalls clog the base of this falls, and moss and ferns abound, along with odd-looking two-leaved wortlike plants I couldn't identify.2004, Scott E. Brown, Pennsylvania Waterfalls: A Guide for Hikers & Photographers. From the entry wortlike

Meaning of moss

1. 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).
2. noun A kind or species of such plants.
3. noun Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.

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How do you use moss in a sentence?

Moss is used as a noun and verb. For example: “An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.”

What is a short sentence with moss?

“You just got mossed!”

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).