flowering moss

American  

noun

1. pyxie.

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Etymology

Origin of flowering moss

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

In the low-lying meadows, from which the water had retired, flowering moss was sending up its slender heads amid the fresh blades of grass.

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The expectant, yet disappointed, listener shifted the rifle to his shoulder and rubbed his hands, which were hot and moist, upon a bunch of flowering moss.

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For the pillow of him I fain would see Was changed long since from my motherly knee To the garden, under the willow-tree,— Weeping-willow and flowering moss.

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I see that the soft west-wind to-day From the cherry-trees beareth their blooms away, And wherever its fitful currents flow, Rising or falling, swift or slow, The tender petals like white wings go, Floating, eddying, wavering low, Wheeling and sinking in showers of snow; And under their light and flickering fall, The mound, and the flowering moss, and all, Grow blanched and white as a billow's crest.

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We found no bears, but at an elevation of 12,000 feet were some very old trees, heavily covered with flowering moss not hitherto known to science.

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