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Encyclopedia > Moss (disambiguation)

Moss has several meanings:

  • In botany, a moss and a peat moss are plants
  • Many other plants called mosses are actually algae (such as Irish moss) or flowers (such as Spanish moss).
  • Some lichens are commonly called 'mosses' (such as reindeer moss, or reindeer lichen).
  • Places with moss in the name are usually on or near peat bogs; e.g. Whixall Moss
  • Moss, a town in Norway
    • A football team from Moss
  • a Measure Of Software Similarity, a free software (service, not packaged software), to find out software-plagiarism. MossPlus is commercial.


There are also several people named Moss: MOSS can refer to: the Mobile submarine simulator, a sonar decoy the Market Oriented Sector Selective talks, trade negotiations held between the United States and Japan Moving Object Support System This page about a 4-letter acronym or initialism is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the... Species See text Sphagnum is a genus of mosses commonly called peat moss due to its prevalence in peat bogs. ... The algae (singular is alga) comprise several different groups of living things that produce energy through photosynthesis. ... California Poppies in flower Flower (Latin flos, floris; French fleur), a term popularly used for the bloom or blossom of a plant, is the reproductive structure of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... Binomial name Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L. Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) closely resembles its namesake (Usnea, or beard moss), yet is not a moss at all. ... Crustose and foliose lichens on a wall Lichens are symbiotic organisms made up by the association of microscopic green algae or cyanobacteria and filamentous fungi. ... Reindeer lichen (c. ... Virgin boreal acid bogs at Browns Lake Bog, Ohio A bog is a wetland type that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material. ... Whixall Moss is an area of peat bog near Ellesmere in Shropshire, England. ... Moss is a coastal town and municipality in the county of Østfold. ... Plagiarism is a form of academic malpractice. ...


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Moss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1502 words)
The life of a moss starts from a haploid spore, which germinates to produce a protonema, which is either a mass of filaments or thalloid (flat and thallus-like).
Mosses were traditionally grouped with the liverworts and hornworts in the Division Bryophyta (bryophytes), within which the mosses made up the class Musci.
Mosses are common in wooded areas and at the edges of streams.
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