moss
/mɔs/ noun B1- 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).
- A kind or species of such plants.
- Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure. · Spanish moss· Irish moss
Plural mosses
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See how soft the dried leaves are under your feet and how rich and green the moss is that clings to these old trees.
If you were out in a great big woods with other trees all around you and little mosses and June bells growing over your roots and a brook not far away and birds singing in your branches, you could grow, couldn’t you?
Below the garden a green field lush with clover sloped down to the hollow where the brook ran and where scores of white birches grew, upspringing airily out of an undergrowth suggestive of delightful possibilities in ferns and mosses and woodsy things generally.
We have great big stones, all covered with moss, for seats, and boards from tree to tree for shelves.
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