noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
green
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They were green with moss , red with rust.
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And the old fountain, now green with moss and algae, made a sweet, pattering sound.
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Perhaps four feet high, a girl, daintily made, her body stained and streaked green with moss .
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Even the sounds here were dry and brittle; she longed for sounds that were sponged up by green moss .
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The gravel was carpeted in bright green moss and leaves lay sodden and dark under the shrubs.
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The firm glossy green water mosses with ovate to lanceolate leaves belong to the genus Fontinalis.
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Psychedelic green moss and bright yellow rhododendron leaves submerged in pools like goldfish reminded me of Aros on Mull.
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Here and there a red squirrel jumped down noisily, then hopped back on to a horizontal log cushioned with soft green moss .
■ NOUN
sphagnum
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He also advised that seeds be sent in a vegetating condition, packed in layers of damp sphagnum moss .
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The ground was covered with soft green sphagnum moss , and the dampness here did not permit the growth of hardwoods.
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Without the camouflage of pondweed and sphagnum moss he was unrecognizable.
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Dress with hormone powder and wedge open with a pad of damp sphagnum moss .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rolling stone gathers no moss
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Avoid amendments that include peat moss , which is naturally acidic.
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He found a few others: a sphagnum moss peat bog can repel the invasion of pine trees for thousands of years.
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It collected there in a stone hollow, fell down over moss .
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The firm glossy green water mosses with ovate to lanceolate leaves belong to the genus Fontinalis.
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The seeds of Nuphar must be stored in cold surroundings, either covered with moss or buried in the sand.
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These are also the constant species, together with the moss Polytrichum commune.
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Where moisture is limited and productivity low the moss covering remains thin.
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Wrap with moss held in place with clear polythene tied either side with raffia or tape.