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moss
English
Etymology
From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *mus? (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss”), German Low German Moss (“moss”), German Moos (“moss”), Danish mos (“moss”), Swedish mossa (“moss”), Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Latin muscus (“moss”), Russian ??? (mox, “moss”), Polish mech. Doublet of mousse.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m?s/
- (US) enPR: môs, IPA(key): /m?s/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: mäs, IPA(key): /m?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
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).
- Hypernym: bryophyte
- (countable) A kind or species of such plants.
- (informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
- Hyponyms: alga, cryptogam, lichen
- (now chiefly Britain regional) A bog; a fen.
Usage notes
- The plural form mosses is used when more than one kind of moss is meant. The singular moss is used referring to a collection of moss plants of the same kind.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)
- (intransitive) To become covered with moss.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with moss.
Translations
See also
- muscoid
Further reading
- moss on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- A New English dictionary on historical principles, Volume 6, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions, editors, Clarendon Press, 1908, pages 684-6
Anagrams
- SMOS, SMOs, soms
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- mossál
Etymology
mos +? -j
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mo??]
- Hyphenation: moss
- Rhymes: -o??
Verb
moss
- second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of mos
Usage notes
Not to be confused with mos (“to wash”).
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vaginula
English
Etymology
From Latin [Term?], diminutive of vagina (“sheath”).
Noun
vaginula (plural vaginulas or vaginulae)
- (botany) A little sheath, such as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
- (botany) One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Henslow to this entry?)
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