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moss Noun 1. a very small flowerless plant typically growing in dense mats on trees, rocks, or moist ground 2. Scot & N English a peat bog or marsh [Old English mos swamp] mossy adj
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Tulliver was on horseback soon after dinner the next day (he was not dyspeptic) on his way to Basset to see his sister Moss and her husband. His giant thoat was far from jaded, yet it would be well, thought Thar Ban, to permit him to graze upon the ochre moss which grows to greater height within the protected courtyards of deserted cities, where the soil is richer than on the sea-bottoms, and the plants partly shaded from the sun during the cloudless Martian day. The bottom of the valley was soggy with water, which the thick moss held, spongelike, close to the surface. |
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