Clues for the word "MOSS"
We've had 204 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 409 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 04, 2025.
Definition of moss
- n. - A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
- n. - A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
- v. t. - To cover or overgrow with moss.
Referring Clues
- Sphagnum, for one
- Growth on the north side of trees
- Famous Hart
- Bryologist's study
- Forest growth
- Rolling stones lack it
- Symbol of inactivity
- Tree-hugger?
- Playwright Hart
- Tree growth
- Velvety growth
- Shaded growth
- It reproduces by spores
- Trunk growth
- ___ green (grayish hue)
- Cushiony forest seat
- Plant that can grow on trees
- Sphagnum or peat
- Green growth
- Vikings' #84
- Forest floor growth
- It doesn't gather on rolling stones
- Moor growth
- Terrarium greenery
- Spanish ___ (tropical tree hanger-on)
- Kate on the runway
- Peat ingredient
- Rolling stone lack
- Rolling stone's lack, proverbially
- A rolling stone gathers none
- Peat source
- Old-man's-beard
- Fuzzy growth on rocks
- Swamp growth
- Shade of green
- Ground greenery
- "A rolling stone gathers no ___"
- Some spores, all grown up
- Rolling stone's lack
- Green shade
- It grows on trees
- "... gathers no ___"
- Velvety flora
- Rock coat
- Lichen's kin
- Supermodel who gathers no pounds?
- Velvety ground cover
- Rootless plant
- Forest undergrowth
- Matlike growth
- Velvety tree hugger
- Bayou growth
- Damp area growth
- Velvety plant that likes dampness and shade
- "... gathers no ___"
- Rolling stones' lack
- Terrarium growth
- Velvety green growth
- Downy fungi
- Shady growth
- Model Kate
- Tree trunk greenery
- Nonflowering plant
- Low-growing greenery
- Velvety plant
- Rolling stone's lack?
- Rock cover
- Velvety forest growth
- Tree hugger?
- Rock growth
- Bryophyte
- Peat-bog material
- Tufted plant
- See 15-Down
- Tree trunk growth
- Matted growth
- Nature's pillow?
- Non-flowering plant
- What rolling stones don't gather
- Looks like a lichen
- Sign of disuse
- Tiny plant
- Simple green plant
- Rock clinging plant
- Sphagnum ___
- Forest-floor plant
- Fuzzy growth
- Primitive vegetation
- Peat ___
- Terrarium staple
- Creepy thing
- Directional sign, of a sort
- Former NFL receiver Randy
- Swamp stuff
- Development on the north side?
- Yellowish green
- ___ green
- Forest coat
- Peat component
- Rock covering
- Cushiony ground cover
- Shade similar to artichoke green
- Zen garden growth
- Tree-hugging greenery
- Spanish ___
- Growth on rocks
- " . . . gathers no ___"
- Bryophytic plant
- Cushiony forest growth
- Growth on the forest floor
- Sphagnum, e.g.
- Racecar driver stirling
- Rock's cushion
- Tree hugger
- Liverwort kin
- Forest plant
- Irish ___
- Pass catcher Randy
- Growth on stones
- Bryologist's interest
- Jarvis of the Denver Broncos
- Velvety green growth on trees
- Fuzzy green stuff
- Velvety growth on trees
- Growth on a rock
- Green growth on a tree
- Lawn growth
- Kate who Pete Doherty dated
- Supermodel Kate, b.1974
- See 5
- There's nothing in manuscripts of botanical interest
- Type of plant growing in damp places
- Model racing driver
- Low growing plant
- In writings, love is something that grows
- Small plants growing as thick mat
- Moment to ship plant
- Plant(s) not wanted on lawns
- Most of my lawn!
- Small flowerless green plant without proper roots
- A model of vegetable growth
- Driver of good-looking model
- Welcome growth in Japanese gardens
- Actress Elisabeth who's been on the cover of Rolling Stone, ironically
- Dense growth
- Some greenery that's not grass
- Rock collection
- It's on the rocks?
- 1990s supermodel Kate who popularized the waif look
- Rolling stone's supposed lack
- Everglades growth
- Plant
- Racing driver once seen with model
- M&S clothing very large for fashion star
- Natural green coat
- Lichen
- Fuzzy green plant that grows on rocks
- Growth on trunks
- Growth on tree trunks
- It grows in the shade
- Bryophytic growth
- Growth on a damp rock
- What some proverbial stones don't gather
- Natural floor covering
- Bog growth
- Plant springing up in allotments sometimes
- Source of peat
- Stone covering
- Forest floor cover
- Sylvan carpet
- Green shade or something that grows on trees
- Green growth on stones
- Something soft to sit on
- Spongy growth
- Green carpet?
- Soft "seat" in the woods
- Fuzzy stuff in a forest
- It can grow on trees
- Stirling letter from Moses
- Zen garden cover
- Much of Iceland's greenery
- Carpet on a forest floor
- Green growth on tree trunks
- Spanish -
- "The Handmaid's Tale" Emmy winner
- Growth on a tree trunk
- What might surround a trunk
- Flowerless plant
- Green growth on a stone
- Velvety tree growth
- Green tree-hugger?
- Green growth on a tree trunk
- Fuzzy green plant
- Velvety green plant
- Carrie-Anne of "The Matrix"
- Fuzzy forest growth
- Green growth on a log
- See 43-Down
- Fuzzy green stuff on some trees
- Plant often confused with algae
- Rootless plant used in some street art
- Kind of floor covering
- Growth on one side of trees
- Deep shade of green
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