A large branching bluish-grey lichen which grows in arctic and subarctic regions, sometimes providing the chief winter food of reindeer.
石蕊
Cladonia rangiferina, order Cladoniales
Example sentencesExamples
There's no sign of humanity for many miles - just low hills, a few black spruce, a thick cover of reindeer moss, and an endless succession of lakes and rivers.
When the weather's fine there's excellent walking on a network of inland tracks that climb past peat-dark lakes through cloudberries, bilberries, saxifrage and reindeer moss, with eagles above and the occasional moose up ahead.
The two lichens of economic importance are Iceland moss, Cetraria islandica, and reindeer moss, Cladonia rangiferina.
There he purchased a large quantity of reindeer moss from the farmers in the nearby area.
Definition of reindeer moss in US English:
reindeer moss
nounˈrānˌdi(ə)r ˌmôs
A large branching bluish-gray lichen which grows in arctic and subarctic regions, sometimes providing the chief winter food of reindeer.
石蕊
Cladonia rangiferina, order Cladoniales
Example sentencesExamples
When the weather's fine there's excellent walking on a network of inland tracks that climb past peat-dark lakes through cloudberries, bilberries, saxifrage and reindeer moss, with eagles above and the occasional moose up ahead.
There's no sign of humanity for many miles - just low hills, a few black spruce, a thick cover of reindeer moss, and an endless succession of lakes and rivers.
There he purchased a large quantity of reindeer moss from the farmers in the nearby area.
The two lichens of economic importance are Iceland moss, Cetraria islandica, and reindeer moss, Cladonia rangiferina.