sea moss

Questions about sea moss

What does sea moss mean?

sea moss means "sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sea moss?

Close synonyms include bryozoan, polyzoan, sea mat, moss animal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sea moss a common word?

sea moss is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.