scale moss

scale moss

n (Plants) any of various leafy liverworts of the order Jungermanniales, which resemble mosses

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1.scale moss - moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves; usually epiphyticleafy liverworthepatic, liverwort - any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mossesJungermanniales, order Jungermanniales - large order of chiefly tropical liverworts