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.
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Any pleurocarpic moss.
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A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.
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Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
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Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
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