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vegetation

English

Etymology

From Middle French végétation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?v?d????te???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

vegetation (countable and uncountable, plural vegetations)

  1. (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
    There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.
  2. (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
  3. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

Derived terms

  • devegetation

Translations


Swedish

Noun

vegetation c

  1. vegetation.

Declension

vegetation From the web:

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  • what vegetation grows in the land of the midnight sun
  • what vegetation zones are in west africa
  • what vegetation grows in the tundra
  • what vegetation is in the desert
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  • what vegetation grows in the desert
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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/
  • (cotcaught merger, Canada) enPR: mäs, IPA(key): /m?s/
  • Rhymes: -?s
  • Rhymes: -??s

Noun

moss (countable and uncountable, plural mosses)

  1. 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
  2. (countable) A kind or species of such plants.
  3. (informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
    Hyponyms: alga, cryptogam, lichen
  4. (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)

  1. (intransitive) To become covered with moss.
  2. (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

  1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of mos

Usage notes

Not to be confused with mos (to wash).

moss From the web:

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  • what moss grows on trees
  • what moss grows in full sun
  • what moss is used for bonsai
  • what moss is edible
  • what moss to use for kokedama
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