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Definition of Mosslike
1. resembling moss [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mosslike
Literary usage of Mosslike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative Plants: A Manual for the Use of Students of Botany in by Herman Silas Pepoon (1912)
"Flattened horizontal thallus forms or mosslike. Class II. Mosses proper, with
two subclasses. ... mosslike plants with conelike spore fruits. BRANCH IV. ..."
2. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1919)
"Plants without true flowers, reproducing by spores (no embryo being formed);
fernlike, mosslike, ... 4-many-ranked; plants more or less mosslike. ..."
3. Flora of the District of Columbia and Vicinity by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1919)
"... more or less mosslike. Plants depressed or short-creeping, not over 3 or 4 cm.
high; spores of 2 kinds, megaspores and microspores SELAGINELLACEAE (p. ..."
4. Travels in Alaska by John Muir (1915)
"On the edge of some of the snow-banks I noticed cassiope. The thin, green, mosslike
patches seen from camp are composed of a rich, ..."
5. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"... d'Alene Mts. and the Selkirk Range, Can., etc., and northwest to Alaska.
,, JL alpine shrub 1-4 inches high; mosslike. . A tufted and procumbent ..."
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