…a small flowerless green plant which lacks true roots, growing in low carpets or rounded cushions in damp habitats and reproducing by means of spores released from stalked capsules…
…(b.1929), English motor-racing driver. He won various Grands Prix and other competitions in the 1950s, though the world championship eluded him…
…(1904–61), US playwright and director. His collaborations with George S. Kaufman include the plays You Ca n’t Take It with You (1936) and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939). He also wrote the movie script for Gentlemen’s Agreement (1947)…
…an area of broken ground or a hole from which peat has been taken…
…a large absorbent moss which grows in dense masses on boggy ground, where the lower parts decay slowly to form peat deposits…
…a red seaweed of southern Asia, which is the main source of agar…
…a sedentary colonial aquatic animal found chiefly in the sea, either encrusting rocks, seaweeds, or other surfaces, or forming stalked fronds. Each minute zooid filter-feeds by means of a crown of ciliated tentacles (lophophore)…
…a brown branching lichen with stiff spines along the margins of the fronds, growing in mountain and moorland habitats. It can be boiled to produce an edible jelly…
…an almost stemless campion with pink flowers, found on mountains and in arctic areas of both Eurasia and North America…
…a large branching bluish-grey lichen which grows in arctic and subarctic regions, sometimes providing the chief winter food of reindeer…
…a tropical American plant which grows as silvery-green festoons on trees, obtaining water and nutrients directly through its surface…
…a person who does not settle in one place will not accumulate wealth or status, or responsibilities or commitments…
…an edible red shoreline seaweed with flattened branching fronds, found in both Eurasia and North America…
…an edible red shoreline seaweed with flattened branching fronds, found in both Eurasia and North America…
…used in names of algae, lichens, and higher plants resembling moss, e.g. reindeer moss, Ceylon moss, Spanish moss…
…used in names of algae, lichens, and higher plants resembling moss, e.g. reindeer moss, Ceylon moss, Spanish moss…
…used in names of algae, lichens, and higher plants resembling moss, e.g. reindeer moss, Ceylon moss, Spanish moss…
