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Definition of Mosses
1. moss [v] - See also: moss
Medical Definition of Mosses
1. A class of plants within the bryophyta comprising the mosses, which are found in both damp (including freshwater) and drier situations. Mosses possess erect or prostrate leafless stems, which give rise to leafless stalks bearing capsules. Spores formed in the capsules are released and grow to produce new plants. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mosses
Literary usage of Mosses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"Plants of this grade are chiefly mosses. So as a whole they take l lie name of 498.
Bryophyta, Bryophytes in English form, Bryum being the Greek ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"On the whole mosses grow in drier situations than the liverworts, ... The different
appearance of exposed mosses in dry weather and after a shower ..."
3. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"All mosses are distinguished by the following peculiarities, ... There are,
however, one or two mosses in which the capsular plants are greatly reduced in ..."
4. The Great Ice Age: And Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1874)
"Such being the case, there may seem to be no difficulty in understanding how it
comes to pass that we have peat-mosses. The plants which go to form these ..."
5. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1908)
"VERY interesting small packet of mosses, collected in Caribou Bog at Crystal in
... It contained one species of Sphagnum, one hepatic, and four true mosses. ..."
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