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moss

[maws, mos] / mɔs, mɒs /
NOUN
flowerless plant
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With dated production and too many songs that make a good first impression but fail to stick, “Steel Wheels” has gathered moss over the years.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Carlini demonstrated how powerful Mythos can be one afternoon recently at Anthropic’s 10-story San Francisco headquarters, where moss walls, plants and artwork are designed to evoke the Pacific Coast Trail.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

"It is a pretty-looking thing," he concedes, plucking fragments off a clump torn from a carpet of green moss.

From BBC May 30, 2026

"This moss has just exploded. In the 1930s, native mosses would have been growing here instead," Greiff explains.

From BBC May 30, 2026

Dad and I unload the bag of peat moss Mom asked for.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

"Millipedes were feeding on decaying mosses, decomposed slime, and primordial gunk on the surface of the Earth."

From Science Daily Jun. 14, 2026

"In heathlands like this one, native mosses have gone locally extinct or reduced significantly in their populations," he says.

From BBC May 30, 2026

Their rich, sheltered microclimates are home to mosses, lichens, fungi and ferns, with some species rarely found outside the remaining fragments of Cumbrian woodland.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2026

"We did a survey of the different kinds of mosses growing near the crime scene, and that species of moss was not growing there," says von Konrat.

From Science Daily Mar. 6, 2026

“They destroy the ground cover so that the birds and animals of the ferns and mosses have no home. I would never let one on my mountain—never.”

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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