#moss lover

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noun. mosses are small flowerless plants that grow as short green carpets, usually in damp (/shady) areas.

the meanings ‘many plants growing together’ and ‘bog’ both come from the old english word meos for ‘moss plant’ and mos for ‘bog’. 

both words come from proto-germanic musan. this became old norse mosi, which means moss or bog, and also medieval latin mossa which literally translates just to ‘moss’.

Note that in Scotland the word ‘moss’ is used to refer to a bog or swamp.

tl;dr germanic musan became english moss