Index of English words, starting with "mo"

(1) - Moss (v. t.) To cover or overgrow with moss.
(2) - Moss (n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
(3) - Moss (n.) 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.

(1) - Moss-grown (a.) Overgrown with moss.

(1) - Mossback (n.) A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.

(1) - Mossy (superl.) Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
(2) - Mossy (superl.) Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.