sea moss | any of various red algae having graceful rose to purple fronds (e.g. dulse or carrageen) |
Irish moss carrageen carageen carragheen Chondrus crispus | dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America |
tanager | any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males |
scarlet tanager Piranga olivacea redbird firebird | the male is bright red with black wings and tail |
western tanager Piranga ludoviciana | of western North America, male is black and yellow and orangeed |
summer tanager summer redbird Piranga rubra | of middle and southern United States, male is deep roseed the female mostly yellow |
hepatic tanager Piranga flava hepatica | common tanager of southwestern United States and Mexico |
eastern red-backed salamander Plethodon cinereus | common salamander of eastern North America |
western red-backed salamander Plethodon vehiculum | salamander of the Pacific coast of North America |
red-backed sandpiper dunlin Erolia alpina | small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions |
black-backed gull great black-backed gull cob Larus marinus | white gull having a black back and wings |
bryozoan polyzoan sea mat sea moss moss animal | sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles, attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding |
red-backed mouse redback vole | any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America |
grey lemming gray lemming red-backed lemming | Old World lemming |
moss-trooper | a marauder and plunderer (originally operating in the bogs between England and Scotland) |
Hart Moss Hart | United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (-) |
moss | tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants |
moss family | a family of mosses |
moss genus | a genus of mosses |
acrocarp acrocarpous moss | a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule) |
pleurocarp pleurocarpous moss | a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk |
sphagnum sphagnum moss peat moss bog moss | any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat |
leafy liverwort scale moss | moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves, usually epiphytic |
moss campion Silene acaulis | tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of Arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America |
rose moss sun plant Portulaca grandiflora | widely cultivated in many varieties for its fleshy moss-like foliage and profusion of brightly colored flowers |
bristly locust rose acacia moss locust Robinia hispida | large shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having bristly stems and large clusters of pink flowers |
Spanish moss old man's beard black moss long moss Tillandsia usneoides | dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots, southeastern United States and West Indies to South America |
moss pink mountain phlox moss phlox dwarf phlox Phlox subulata | low tufted perennial phlox with needlelike evergreen leaves and pink or white flowers, native to United States and widely cultivated as a ground cover |
ground pink fringed pink moss pink Linanthus dianthiflorus | low wiry-stemmed branching herb or southern California having fringed pink flowers |
floating-moss Salvinia rotundifolia Salvinia auriculata | free-floating aquatic ferns |
beard lichen beard moss Usnea barbata | greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees |
reindeer moss reindeer lichen arctic moss Cladonia rangiferina | an erect greyish branching lichen of Arctic and even some north temperate regions constituting the chief food for reindeer and caribou and sometimes being eaten by humans |
Iceland moss Iceland lichen Cetraria islandica | lichen with branched flattened partly erect thallus that grows in mountainous and Arctic regions, used as a medicine or food for humans and livestock, a source of glycerol |
club moss club-moss lycopod | primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles |
ground cedar staghorn moss Lycopodium complanatum | a variety of club moss |
spikemoss spike moss little club moss | any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella |
mortgage-backed security | a security created when a group of mortgages are gathered together and bonds are sold to other institutions or the public, investors receive a portion of the interest payments on the mortgages as well as the principal payments, usually guaranteed by the government |
moss agate | an agate resembling moss with brown, black, or green markings |
backed | having a back or backing, usually of a specified type |
high-backed | having a high back, a high-backed sofa |
low-backed | having a low back |
razorback razor-backed | having a sharp narrow back, a razor-backed horse, razorback hogs |
spiny-backed | having the back covered with spines |
stiff-backed | having a stiff back, the guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling |
straight-backed | having a straight back, a straight-backed wooden chair, a slim straight-backed dancer |
moss green mosstone | of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color |
red-coated lobster-backed | used of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coats |
broken-backed hogged | (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end |
broken-backed | having the spine damaged, a broken-backed book, a broken-backed old horse |
fogyish moss-grown mossy stick-in-the-mud(p) stodgy | (used pejoratively) out of fashion, old fashioned, moss-grown ideas about family life |