Definition of "water-moss" [water-moss]

• A moss of the genus Fontinalis (which see). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It was trellised with vines, maidenhair ferns, and water-moss making a vivid green background for the golden yellow and burnished copper leaves which still clung to some small cottonwood trees -- the only trees we had seen in Marble Canyon."
• "The torn roots, the decaying trunks, and the shattered branches of the dead giants of the ancient wood, were dank with water-moss."
• "In summer, the sparkling water of the lake rippled under a burning sun, and the thousand tree-trunks left floating in it, held near to the edge by the floating boom of logs, became hot and dry on the upper side, while the green water-moss caught them from beneath."