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moss

short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)

to become covered in moss; to become mossy; to grow over with moss

to become aged; to grow old

lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea); cowberry

bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)

kokedama; moss ball; plant grown in a ball of soil covered in moss, held together with string

moss animal (any animal of phylum Bryozoa)

mossy

moss garden

lichen

liverworts; hepatics (non-vascular plants of order Marchantiophyta)

bryozoans (animals of phylum Bryozoa)

nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets

Abbreviation

nori bento

visit to a family grave (esp. during the Bon festival)

removal of moss from a tombstone

Food, cooking

sushi roll (rolled in nori); rolled sushi; norimaki; makizushi

green laver (Enteromorpha); green dried seaweed; nori

green moss

baked seaweed; toasted seaweed

Food, cooking

seasoned nori

Food, cooking

crumbled grilled nori

sphagnum; peat moss; bog moss

moss; bryophyte

Word usually written using kana alone

Pyropia tenera (species of edible seaweed)

dried nori; dried laver

wild harvested nori

jelly lichen (Collema sp.)