What is another word for Mosses?

Pronunciation: [mˈɒsɪz] (IPA)

Mosses are small, herbaceous, nonvascular plants found growing in damp, shady areas. There are many synonyms for the word "mosses" including Bryophyta, musci, cryptogams, and bryopsida. Bryophyta refers to a division of non-flowering, spore-producing plants comprising the mosses and liverworts. Musci is a Latin term for mosses, cryptogams are primitive plants that do not bear flowers or seeds, and bryopsida is a class of bryophyte plants including mosses, hornworts, and liverworts. Despite their small size, these plants play a crucial role in many ecosystems by creating habitats and providing nesting material for small animals.

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Usage examples for Mosses

There were still blackberries on the bramble, beside which the brown fern filled the open spaces, and behind upon the banks the Mosses clothed the ground and the roots of the trees with a deep green.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The ledges were no longer green, for the sun that came in when the big trees fell had killed most of the Mosses and ferns that decked them; and the brook's song, though cheery still, was scarcely heard as it trickled and seeped where once it had rushed and tumbled down the woodsy valley, which remained woodsy still, because happily the soil there was too poor to raise anything but brush and cowslips, and so the woodsmen had spared it from desolation.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long
Here were grass, Mosses, and creeping willows in abundance, descending into the gullies.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Mosses

  • The truth seems to be, that like many other geniuses, this Man of Mosses takes great delight in hoodwinking the world, — at least, with respect to himself. Personally, I doubt not, that he rather prefers to be generally esteemed but a so-so sort of author; being willing to reserve the thorough and acute appreciation of what he is, to that party most qualified to judge — that is, to himself. Besides, at the bottom of their natures, men like Hawthorne, in many things, deem the plaudits of the public such strong presumptive evidence of mediocrity in the object of them, that it would in some degree render them doubtful of their own powers, did they hear much and vociferous braying concerning them in the public
    Herman Melville

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