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Kate Moss

modelBorn: 1/16/1974Birthplace: London, England A supermodel known for her waifish look, Moss was discovered at John F. Kennedy International Airport when she was 14 and on vacation with her family…

Stirling Moss

Born: Sept. 17, 1929Auto racer won 194 of 466 career races and 16 Formula One events, but was never world champion.

club moss

(Encyclopedia) club moss, name generally used for the living species of the class Lycopodiopsida, a primitive subdivision of vascular plants. The Lycopodiopsida were a dominant plant group in the…

Irish moss

(Encyclopedia) Irish moss: see seaweed; Rhodophyta.

Hart, Moss

(Encyclopedia) Hart, Moss, 1904–61, American dramatist, b. New York City, studied at Columbia. His first important play, Once in a Lifetime (1930), marked the beginning of a long collaboration with…

moss animal

(Encyclopedia) moss animal, common name applied to members of the phylum Ectoprocta.

Spanish moss

(Encyclopedia) Spanish moss, fibrous grayish-green epiphyte (Tillandsia usneoides) that hangs on trees of tropical America and the Southern states, also called Florida, southern, or long moss. It is…