Search the Dictionary

A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.

To entangle; to intertwine. "Moss and intertangled vines." Longfellow.

d or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland. Irish elk. (Zoöl.) See under Elk. -- Irish moss. (a) (Bot.) Carrageen. (b) A preparation of the same made into a blanc mange. -- Irish poplin. See Poplin. -- Irish potato, the ordinary white potato, so called because it is a favorite article of food in Ireland. -- Irish…

A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ.

e; plain; - - used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript. The stone with moss and lichens so overspread, Nothing is legible but the name alone. Longfellow.

One of an extinct family of trees allied to the modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies.

s bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.

An organic acid, C14H24O3 obtained from Iceland moss. (b) An old name of fumaric acid.

A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.

The cover of the spore cases of mosses.

ging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.

An old name for a fossil club moss.

A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceæ; club moss. Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium, and other plants of the order Lycopodiaceæ. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, and the artificial representation of ligh…

A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened. [Written also matress.]

tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain. Mocha stone (Min.), moss agate.

An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticæ and sphagna.

An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.

Having the appearance or form of a moss.

Mosslike; resembling moss.