EGAVE

moss

About 4.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).
  2. noun A kind or species of such plants.
  3. noun Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
    Spanish moss
  4. noun A bog; a fen.
    the mosses of the Scottish border
  5. verb To become covered with moss.
    An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
  6. verb To cover (something) with moss.
  7. noun A spectacular catch made over 1 or multiple defenders, typically a jump ball.
    Bro, that moss was insane!
  8. verb To make a spectacular catch over 1 or multiple defenders.
    You just got mossed!

Similar words

eelgrass sphagnum lichen turf fishes mousse moose brew beer peat

Often followed by

and or is in on was of to that

Word family

mossed mosses mossing mosslike

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