moss
noun
any tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
Example Sentences
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The sun shone brightly on those two black figures, so very different, and drew out of their well-worn garments the faint latent green mossiness which. underlies the clothes of clergymen.
From Saint's Progress by John Galsworthy
Muscol′ogist, one skilled in muscology; Muscol′ogy, the part of botany which treats of mosses; Muscos′ity, mossiness.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
It impressed Evan, not because of his mossiness altogether, but because of his youth, and of youth's anxiety to make good.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by J. P. Buschlen
Sometimes, when the good Knight his rest would take, It is reflected, clearly, in a lake, With the young ashen boughs, 'gainst which it rests, And th' half seen mossiness of linnets' nests.
From Poems 1817 by John Keats
There was no spruceness of biweekly mowing about the lawn, no ambitious spick-and-spanness about the old, white, wooden, green-blinded cottage itself, but rather a restful mossiness of ancient respectability.
From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston
