moss

moss — noun

1. a tiny, flowerless plant with small leaf-like structures that grows in dense clu

1.名詞B1
釋義

a tiny, flowerless plant with small leaf-like structures that grows in dense clumps on any damp surface — soil, rocks, tree bark, walls — and ranges from bright green to yellowish

例句

The old stone wall in Liam's garden was completely covered in thick green moss.

collocation: covered in moss

Antonia knelt down to feel the soft moss beneath the oak tree.

同義詞
  • bryophyte

    scientific term for the entire plant division that includes mosses; too technical for everyday conversation

  • sphagnum

    a specific type of moss that grows in bogs, often used in gardening; not a general synonym for all moss

文法句型

moss + verb (grows, spreads)

covered with/in moss

常見錯誤

❌This rock is covered with green lichen.' (when the plant is soft and sponge-like).
✅This rock is covered with green moss.
💡Moss is soft and grows in clumps; lichen is flat and crusty.
❌Look at the moss growing on that tree — it has tiny white flowers.
✅Look at the moss on that tree
💡it does not produce flowers.' — Mosses are non-flowering plants; they spread by spores, not seeds or flowers.

moss — verb