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 |
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 |
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 |
moss agate | an agate resembling moss with brown, black, or green markings |
moss green mosstone | of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color |
fogyish moss-grown mossy stick-in-the-mud(p) stodgy | (used pejoratively) out of fashion, old fashioned, moss-grown ideas about family life |
moss-grown mossy | overgrown with moss |