1. any of various green, usually small, nonvascular plants of the class Musci of the division Bryophyta.
2. A patch or covering of such plants.
3. any of various other unrelated plants having a similar appearance or manner of growth, such as the club moss, irish moss, and spanish moss.
4. to cover with moss.

1. A bog; a swamp.
2. any of various small green plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones etc.; now specifically, a plant of the division Bryophyta (formerly Musci).
3. A type or species of such plant.
4. to become covered with moss.
5. to cover (something) with moss.

1. A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. the fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. there are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
2. A bog; a morass; a place containing peat.
3. to cover or overgrow with moss.

1. to cover with moss.
2. to become mossy; gather moss.
3. to fill with moss, as the crevices between the logs in a logging-camp.
4. A small herbaceous plant of the natural order Musci, with simple or branching stems and numerous generally narrow leaves: usually applied to a matted mass of such plants growing together; also, in popular use, any small cryptogamic plant, particularly a lichen: as, iceland moss, club-moss, rock-moss, coral-moss, etc., and sometimes small matted phanerogams, as Pyxidanthera.
5. money: in allusion to the proverb, “a rolling stone gathers no moss.”
6. A swamp or bog; specifically, a peatbog or a tract of such bogs; also, peat.
7. an erroneous form of morse.
8. the widow's-cross, sedum pulchellum.
9. the haircap-moss, Polytrichum juniperinum.
10. same as golden moss .
11. same as flowering moss .

1. tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants