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treemoss

treemoss noun: unprocessed mosses and lichens found growing on trees, often used commercially in fragrances.

Noun

treemoss (countable and uncountable, plural treemosses)

  1. Unprocessed mosses and lichens found growing on trees, often used commercially in fragrances.
    • There are but few plants, also , (such as perhaps, the Yew, Savine, and most treemosses, ) which do not serve for the abode and support of known Insects.1825, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Richard Thomas Gore, A Manual of the Elements of Natural History, page 175
    • The principal constituents of treemoss are lichen acids, some of which are atranorin, furfuracinic acid and chloroatranorin (Guenther, 1952).2013, D. L. J. Opdyke, Monographs on Fragrance Raw Materials, page 711

Forms of treemoss

pluraltreemosses

Origin of treemoss

From tree + moss.

Questions about treemoss

What does treemoss mean?
Treemoss means unprocessed mosses and lichens found growing on trees, often used commercially in fragrances.
What part of speech is treemoss?
Treemoss is a noun.
What is the plural of treemoss?
The plural of treemoss is treemosses.

Words near treemoss in the dictionary

  1. treemakers
  2. treemaking
  3. treemap
  4. treemapping
  5. treemaps
  6. treemoss
  7. treemosses
  8. treen
  9. treenail
  10. treenails
  11. Treenean

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