peat-moss
41moss hag — noun chiefly Scotland : a pit or slough in a marshy place; especially : a place where peat has been cut * * * Scot. an area, pit, or hole from which peat has been dug. [1810 20] * * * moss hag or moss hagg noun (Scot) A pit or slough in a bog • • …
42moss peat — An accumulation of organic material that is predominantly the remains of mosses (e.g., sphagnum moss). Compare: herbaceous peat, sedimentary peat, woody peat, peat, muck, and mucky peat. SSM …
43moss — 1. Any low growing, delicate cryptogamous plant of the class Musci. 2. Popularly, any one of a number of lichens and seaweeds. [A.S. meos] Ceylon m. a red seaweed; a source of agar. club m. SYN: lycopodium. Iceland m. SYN: cetraria. Irish m. SYN …
44peat´like´ — peat1 «peet», noun. 1. a kind of heavy turf made of partly rotted moss and other plants, especially sphagnum moss. It is used as a fertilizer or especially as fuel in Ireland, Great Britain, and other parts of the world where there are many peat… …
45moss — n. & v. n. 1 any small cryptogamous plant of the class Musci, growing in dense clusters on the surface of the ground, in bogs, on trees, stones, etc. 2 Sc. & N.Engl. a bog, esp. a peatbog. v.tr. cover with moss. Phrases and idioms: moss agate… …
46Moss — This long established surname, widespread both in England and Ireland, has two distinct possible sources as an English surname, and a further interpretation when found in the latter country. From an early date, Moss has been used in Ireland as a… …
47moss — Synonyms and related words: algae, autophyte, baygall, bean, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, bracken, brown algae, buffalo wallow, climber, club moss, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, everglade, fen, fenland, fern, flowering moss, fruits… …
48moss — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English mos; akin to Old High German mos moss, Latin muscus Date: before 12th century 1. chiefly Scottish bog, swamp; especially a peat bog 2. a. any of a class (Musci) of bryophytic plants… …
49moss — noun 1》 a small flowerless green plant which grows in low carpets or rounded cushions in damp habitats and reproduces by means of spores. [Class Musci.] ↘used in names of algae, lichens, and other low growing plants, e.g. reindeer moss. 2》… …
50moss hag — Scot. an area, pit, or hole from which peat has been dug. [1810 20] * * * …
