moss

noun

• 1a small flowerless green plant that lacks true roots, growing in low carpets or rounded cushions in damp habitats and reproducing by means of spores released from stalked capsules:the trees are overgrown with vines and moss the bog is home to rare mosses

  • Class Musci, division Bryophyta
• used in names of algae, lichens, and higher plants resembling moss, e.g., reindeer moss, Ceylon moss, Spanish moss.

• 2Scottish & Northern English a bog, especially a peat bog.

verb

• cover with moss.