Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: moss
IPA transcription: [m'ɔs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: moss
    Meaning: tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
Usage examples
  • The moss is soft and warm.
  • We have no bed now, save the moss, and no future, save the beasts.
  • Against the wall, near her father's tomb, was a gravestone, very old and covered with moss.
  • One afternoon Eric and Ivra started out for the Forest Children's moss village to play with them.
  • He makes a comfortable nest of bark lining, grass, and moss, or any other soft material he can find.
  • Stephenson, whose business it is to get from Manchester to Liverpool, sets about filling up Chat Moss.
  • And searching among their roots he found a great flat stone, all overgrown with ivy, and acanthus, and moss.
  • And she told him what they all said, down to the ant who crawled in the moss, and the worm who worked in the bark.
  • Large blocks of stone lay there, overgrown with moss of every color; the fresh spring bubbled forth, and made a strange gurgling sound.
  • I could see, here and there, the track of his former journeys: broken branches of witch-hazel and moose-wood, ferns trampled down, a faint trail across some deeper bed of moss.