pine-moss

noun

Any species of moss that grows on pine trees.

Meanings

nounpine-moss (countable and uncountable, plural pine-mosses)

plural pine-mosses

  1. countableuncountableAny species of moss that grows on pine trees.

    "You must then make yourself a wig of pine-moss and go up to the king's palace, which is close by; there you must ask for service."

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 221
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