moss

Start with the adorably strange tardigrades, or “moss piglets,” with their chubby bodies and eight fat legs.

The evening breeze carries the smell of brine and moss.

Thick green moss grew over the hollow like a stage curtain; one would never know the tree had such a hiding place within.

The earth was springy with moss, and a white-throated warbler chirped merrily from somewhere nearby.

Instead, she turned her full concentration to not slipping on the wet moss of the forest floor and falling into the mud.