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Definition of reindeer moss in English: reindeer mossnoun A large branching bluish-grey lichen which grows in arctic and subarctic regions, sometimes providing the chief winter food of reindeer. 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 mossnounˈrānˌdi(ə)r ˌmôs A large branching bluish-gray lichen which grows in arctic and subarctic regions, sometimes providing the chief winter food of reindeer. 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.
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