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Mosstrooper :: Mosstrooper (n.) One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.

Apophysis :: Apophysis (n.) An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses..

Pleurocarp :: Pleurocarp (n.) Any pleurocarpic moss.

Hoary :: Hoary (a.) Moldy; mossy; musty.

Lichenin :: Lichenin (n.) A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss..

Succubi :: Succubous (a.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila..

Lid :: Lid (n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.

Paraphysis :: Paraphysis (n.) A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants..

Urn-shaped :: Urn-shaped (a.) Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses..

Pteridophyta :: Pteridophyta (n. pl.) A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia..

Moss :: Moss (n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border..

Sea Moss :: Sea moss () Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.

Perianth :: Perianth (n.) A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.

Sporophoric :: Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore..

Operculum :: Operculum (n.) The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses.

Proembryo :: Proembryo (n.) The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses..

Lycopodium :: Lycopodium (n.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceae; club moss..

Flower :: Flower (n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla..

Bryology :: Bryology (n.) That part of botany which relates to mosses.

Lycopodiaceous :: Lycopodiaceous (a.) Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceae, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves..

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