ˈcup-moss
a. A lichen, Scyphophorus pyxidatus or Cladonia pyxidata, having cup-shaped processes arising from the thallus. b. Locally applied to the cudbear, Lecanora tartarea, from its cup-shaped fructification.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal iii. clvii. 1371 Muscus Pyxidatos, which I have englished Cup Mosse, or Chalice Mosse. 1718 Quincy Compl. Disp. 227 Cup Moss..with some other Mosses have been mightily in vogue amongst the good Wives for their children's Coughs. 1794 Donaldson Agric. Surv. Banffshire 60 (Jam.) A species of moss named cud bear or cup moss. a 1835 Mrs. Hemans Summer's Call Poems (1875) 544 Where the fairy cup-moss lies. |