moss

nounflowerless plant

Relevance ranks synonyms and suggests the best matches based on how closely a synonym’s sense matches the sense you selected.

Relevance

A-Z

Length

Synonyms for moss

noun flowerless plant

More words related to moss

Word Origin & History

Old English meos "moss," related to mos "bog," from Proto-Germanic *musan (cf. Old High German mios, Danish mos, German Moos), also in part from Old Norse mosi "moss, bog," and Medieval Latin mossa "moss," from the same Germanic source, from PIE *meus- "damp," with derivatives referring to swamps and swamp vegetation (cf. Latin muscus "moss," Lithuanian musai "mold, mildew," Old Church Slavonic muchu "moss").

All the Germanic languages have the word in both senses, which is natural because moss is the characteristic plant of boggy places. It is impossible to say which sense is original. Scott (1805) revived 17c. moss-trooper "freebooter infesting Scottish border marshes."

Example Sentences for moss

Then the snowdrop sang a lullaby about the moss that loved the violet.

He had on a pair of moss trousers, and his coat was a yellow gorse flower.

The unknown, lurking in the midst of the sticks and moss, was savagely clutching him by the nose.

In summer there was nothing to exercise the mind of Mr. Moss.

Mr. Moss was disentangling the crick in his back for the last time that day.

It was a six-foot drop, but he came down noiselessly into a bed of moss.

The rain had worn its edges, and moss was slowly eating into it.

Others have the appearance of stone, moss, and shells, in every variety of color.

The foundation is made of moss plastered into a mass and saddled on a limb.

The base of one of the plants in Figure 138 is covered with the moss in which they grew.

moss

Synonyms for moss

More words related to moss

bog

emerald

green

marsh

mire

quagmire

moss

Synonyms .css-1u0ksf7{color:#d9d9d9;}for moss

More words related to moss

.css-1unrqcp{color:inherit;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}bog

emerald

green

marsh

mire

quagmire

Synonyms for moss

bog