reindeer moss

Questions about reindeer moss

What is another word for reindeer moss?

It depends which reindeer moss you mean. In the sense “an erect greyish branching lichen of Arctic and even some north temperate regions constituting the chief food for reindeer and caribou and sometimes being eaten by humans”, the synonyms are reindeer lichen, arctic moss, Cladonia rangiferina. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of reindeer moss?

WordNet records no antonym for reindeer moss. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for reindeer moss come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of reindeer moss

• Full entry for reindeer mossAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for reindeer mossWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.