moss

B1 大学 FREQ #8839 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 苔藓, 泥沼 vt. 使长满苔藓

发音

UK /mɒs/
US /mɔs/
/mɑs/

词形变化

mosses 复数 mosses 三单 mossing 现在分词 mossed 过去式 mossed 过去分词

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).

    青苔

    苔藓

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A kind or species of such plants.

    苔

    藓

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.

    可数 非正式 不可数

    Spanish moss

    Irish moss

    club moss

  4. 4.

    A bog; a fen.

    英国 可数 不可数

    the mosses of the Scottish border

    Loynton Moss

  5. 1.

    A spectacular catch made over 1 or multiple defenders, typically a jump ball.

    可数 俚语 体育 游戏 不可数

    Bro, that moss was insane!

v.
  1. 1.

    To become covered with moss.

    不及物

    An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.

  2. 2.

    To cover (something) with moss.

    及物
  3. 1.

    To make a spectacular catch over 1 or multiple defenders.

    不及物 俚语 及物 体育 游戏

    You just got mossed!

  4. 1.

    To relax, chill out.

    不及物 俚语

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

bryophyte non-vascular plant

下位词 5

acrocarp bog moss peat moss pleurocarp sphagnum

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss”), German Low German Moss (“moss”), German Moos (which shows the same polysemy of "moss" and "bog, fen"), Danish mos (“moss”), Swedish mossa (“moss”), Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Latin muscus (“moss”), Russian мох (mox, “moss”), Polish mech. Doublet of mousse.

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