| moss | |
| 1. n. 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). | |
| 2. n. A kind or species of such plants. | |
| 3. n. (informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure. | |
| Spanish moss; Irish moss; club moss. | |
| 4. n. (now chiefly UK regional) A bog; a fen. | |
| the mosses of the Scottish border | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To become covered with moss. | |
| An oak whose boughs were mossed with age. | |
| 6. v. To cover (something) with moss. | |
