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Synonyms for moss

Grammar : Noun
Spell : maws, mos
Phonetic Transcription : mɔs, mɒs

Définition of moss

Origin :
  • Old English meos "moss," related to mos "bog," from Proto-Germanic *musan (cf. Old High German mios, Danish mos, German Moos), also in part from Old Norse mosi "moss, bog," and Medieval Latin mossa "moss," from the same Germanic source, from PIE *meus- "damp," with derivatives referring to swamps and swamp vegetation (cf. Latin muscus "moss," Lithuanian musai "mold, mildew," Old Church Slavonic muchu "moss").
  • Selden Moseþ þe Marbelston þat men ofte treden. ["Piers Plowman," 1362]
  • All the Germanic languages have the word in both senses, which is natural because moss is the characteristic plant of boggy places. It is impossible to say which sense is original. Scott (1805) revived 17c. moss-trooper "freebooter infesting Scottish border marshes."
  • noun flowerless plant
Example sentences :
  • Then the snowdrop sang a lullaby about the moss that loved the violet.
  • Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field
  • He had on a pair of moss trousers, and his coat was a yellow gorse flower.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • The unknown, lurking in the midst of the sticks and moss, was savagely clutching him by the nose.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • In summer there was nothing to exercise the mind of Mr. Moss.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Mr. Moss was disentangling the crick in his back for the last time that day.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • It was a six-foot drop, but he came down noiselessly into a bed of moss.
  • Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • The rain had worn its edges, and moss was slowly eating into it.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • Others have the appearance of stone, moss, and shells, in every variety of color.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 » by Various
  • The foundation is made of moss plastered into a mass and saddled on a limb.
  • Extract from : « Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight » by Mathew Joseph Holt
  • The base of one of the plants in Figure 138 is covered with the moss in which they grew.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard

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