Mosses in a sentence

A tapestry of colourful mosses indicates where it’s safe to step: the green and white spots are drier, while the rich red and copper patches can swallow you whole.

Says Cederlund: “I am fascinated by the mosses.

The plants that grow here, like heather and sphagnum mosses, die to form peat that can accumulate up to 12m.

They said expert tuition will be provided on bird identification, moths, butterflies, trees, hay meadow flowers, right down to the miniscule world of lichens and mosses.

By day, Scotland’s surviving patches of rainforest are a vibrant palette of lush greens, where tiny creatures barely visible against the woodland mosaic lurk, soft mosses, fungi and lichens cling to trees and tiny flowers carpet the floor.

Mosses and other plants could act as natural fabricators for building materials or medicines while converting carbon dioxide to oxygen during space flights.

Of course, nature isn’t just about the birds and the bees and other creatures that move, but it is the plants and the trees, and the fungi, lichens and mosses too.

Sphagnum mosses thrive in the cool and wet environment of the Flow Country.

Stumps and logs progress through their own natural succession, with fungi and mosses establishing themselves early, followed by ferns.

Vegetation in Antarctica is mostly composed of lichens and mosses.

And just for good measure his uncle Mosses Nagamootoo, is the Prime Minister of Guyana.

The dense-growth temperate rainforests are filled with tall trees covered in mosses and forest floors brimming with lush vegetation.

They also found new species of flies, mosses, ants, and “mites which have these big long legs on them,” Dr Langendam says.

It's been 42 years since that day in the vast Martian desert, and the mosses now cover virtually every inch of Mars.

Mosses and other rudimentary types of plants turned out to have a very slow gravity response.

Gordon Hempton guides a group to the clearing where, on a log dotted with the tiniest plants and mosses sits a red stone, roughly one square inch.

The red stone at the center of One Square Inch, sitting among the mosses, lichens, and leaf litter.

While swimming has physical benefits as a low-impact, low-injury sport, the Mosses have sought to create a family rather than team atmosphere with their swimmers.

Criticism Edgar Allan Poe wrote important, and somewhat unflattering, reviews of both Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse.

Even on desert crusts, cyanobacteria, lichens and mosses capture and sequester a significant amount of carbon by photosynthesis.