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- mass noun a small flowerless green plant which lacks true roots, growing in low carpets or rounded cushions in damp habitats and reproducing by means of spores released from stalked capsules苔藓, 藓类植物：
the trees are overgrown with vines and moss
树上爬满了藤蔓和苔藓
count noun the bog is home to rare mosses.这沼泽里生长着稀有苔藓。
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- Class Musci, division Bryophyta.藓纲, 苔藓植物门。
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- used in names of algae, lichens, and higher plants resembling moss, e.g. reindeer moss, Ceylon moss, Spanish moss［用于形似苔藓的藻类、地衣及其他高等植物名称中, 如reideer moss, ceylon moss, Spanish moss］。
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- Scottish & N. English a bog, especially a peat bog〈苏格兰, 北英格兰〉沼泽（尤指泥炭沼）。
派生词
moss-like
adjective词源
Old English mos 'bog or moss'， of Germanic origin; related to Dutch mos and German Moos.