Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as cup-lichen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.

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Examples

  • Amabel was peevish with weariness; her bundles were sadly in the way, and at every step a cup-moss or marchantia dropped out, and Amabel insisted upon its being picked up.

    Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

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