Definitions for Moss

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Moss moss

Spelling: [maws, mos]

IPA: /mɔs, mɒs/

Moss is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Moss (moss).

Definitions for Moss

noun

1. any tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.
2. a growth of such plants.
3. any of various similar plants, as Iceland moss or club moss.
4. Chiefly Scot. and North England. a swamp or bog.
5. Howard, 1922–1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with a growth of moss:

Origin of Moss

before 1000; Middle English mos(se), Old English mos moss, bog; akin to German Moos, Old Norse mȳrr mire

Examples for Moss

The unknown, lurking in the midst of the sticks and moss, was savagely clutching him by the nose.

“I flew into Williston through Denver and went right to the church and met Jay,” says moss.

Callahan claims that within weeks of leaving the Priory, moss “got back on drugs.”

He had on a pair of moss trousers, and his coat was a yellow gorse flower.

Then the snowdrop sang a lullaby about the moss that loved the violet.

In summer there was nothing to exercise the mind of Mr. moss.

By the time the CFDA awards rolled round in early 1994, moss was a bona fide star.

They agreed to let McKell and moss join their tribe for a few days.

He pops from the screen as a charismatic, occasionally messianic “human prism,” as moss calls him.

Mr. moss was disentangling the crick in his back for the last time that day.