Definition of Black moss

1. Noun. Dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Moss

black man
black mangrove
black maple
black margate
black mark
black market
black marketeer
black markets
black marlin
black measles
black membrane
black men
black metal
black morel
black moss (current term)
black mulberries
black mulberry
black music
black mustard
black nightshade
black oak
black olive
black olives
black op
black opal
black operation
black operations
black ops
black out

Literary usage of Black moss

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1871)
"BY “black moss.” )R many years of my life I lived close to the sea, near an estuary frequented by ducks of all kinds; during a severe frost, every little ..."

2. The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher: In Search of a Passage to Cathaia and by George Best, Richard Collinson (1867)
"Stone covered with black moss of ages found on one of the embankments (GG) of ... Two stones ; one, quartz, has upon it a spot of black moss of gee. c 15. ..."

3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1858)
"Half-imbedded in the black moss at bis feet, there lay a grey deal coffin falling to j.itm with age, the lid was gone, blown off probably by the wind, ..."

4. The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the by Robert Forsyth (1805)
"The black moss is ori-mi nally of a mahogany colour, but speedily becomes black upon exposure to the air : the yellowish, ..."

5. Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the by John Ruskin (1879)
"But we are never enough grateful for black moss. ... The black moss which gives the precious .Velasquez touches, lies, much of it, flat on the rocks ..."

6. Locusts and Wild Honey by John Burroughs (1884)
"We paused at a spring run, and I followed it a few yards down its mountain stairway, carpeted with black moss, and had my first glimpse of the unknown ..."

7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1871)
"BY “black moss.” )R many years of my life I lived close to the sea, near an estuary frequented by ducks of all kinds; during a severe frost, every little ..."

8. The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher: In Search of a Passage to Cathaia and by George Best, Richard Collinson (1867)
"Stone covered with black moss of ages found on one of the embankments (GG) of ... Two stones ; one, quartz, has upon it a spot of black moss of gee. c 15. ..."

9. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1858)
"Half-imbedded in the black moss at bis feet, there lay a grey deal coffin falling to j.itm with age, the lid was gone, blown off probably by the wind, ..."

10. The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the by Robert Forsyth (1805)
"The black moss is ori-mi nally of a mahogany colour, but speedily becomes black upon exposure to the air : the yellowish, ..."

11. Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the by John Ruskin (1879)
"But we are never enough grateful for black moss. ... The black moss which gives the precious .Velasquez touches, lies, much of it, flat on the rocks ..."

12. Locusts and Wild Honey by John Burroughs (1884)
"We paused at a spring run, and I followed it a few yards down its mountain stairway, carpeted with black moss, and had my first glimpse of the unknown ..."

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