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Mossing :: Mossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mos.

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..

Enmossed :: Enmossed (a.) Covered with moss; mossed.

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.

Lycopodite :: Lycopodite (n.) An old name for a fossil club moss.

Goemin :: Goemin (n.) A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.

Blackmail :: Blackmail (n.) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage..

Anophyte :: Anophyte (n.) A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves..

Veil :: Veil (n.) The calyptra of mosses.

Hepatica :: Hepatica (n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement..

Dorsal :: Dorsal (a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss..

Cetrarin :: Cetrarin (n.) A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance..

Wolf''s-claw :: Wolf's-claw (n.) A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.

Rhizine :: Rhizine (n.) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.

Columella :: Columella (n.) A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses.

Pleurocarpous :: Pleurocarpous (a.) Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.

Urn :: Urn (n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca..

Agar-agar :: Agar-agar (n.) A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).

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

Flagellum :: Flagellum (v. t.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses..

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