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Moss
Moss, or true mosses, is a small non-vascular land plant of the division Bryophyta, one of the three bryophyte phyla, with no flowers or seeds, absorbing water through its leaves and reproducing by spores.
Moss & Freud
Moss & Freud (2025) is a UK/New Zealand biographical drama by James Lucas starring Ellie Bamber as Kate Moss and Derek Jacobi as Lucian Freud, dramatizing the 2002 Naked Portrait sittings; Moss executive produced, premiere BFI London 2025.
Moss bioreactor
Moss bioreactor: contained photobioreactor culture of Physcomitrella patens protonema for recombinant pharmaceutical proteins, also called moss-made pharmaceuticals; distinguished by homologous-recombination glyco-engineering, 500 L GMP wave reactors, and the phase I Fabry disease drug aGal.
Moss graffiti and moss murals
Moss graffiti and moss murals are artworks made by applying living moss to walls in words or patterns, promoted as an aerosol- and solvent-free alternative to spray paint.
Moss in literature and media
Moss in literature and media covers the use of mosses as symbol and setting in poetry, fiction, film, and nature writing, from Shakespeare to Japanese gardens.
Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility
The Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility is a 750 MW battery storage complex in Moss Landing, California, owned by Vistra and hit by a major fire in 2025.
Moss lawn
Moss lawn: a ground cover of mosses used instead of turfgrass, also called a moss garden. Thrives in shade, damp acidic compacted soil; no mowing, spore reproduction, rhizoids, low traffic tolerance.
Moss people
Moss people (Moosleute, Holzleute, wilde Leute) are small fairy folk of German folklore, timid forest dwellers of Bavaria and Scandinavia who repaid loans and gifts manifold and wove moss cloaks.
Moss Point School District
Moss Point School District (Moss Point Separate School District) is a public school district in Moss Point, Jackson County, Mississippi. Its Tiger district consolidated its segregated Magnolia and Moss Point high schools in 1970, holds a B state accountability grade, and runs a recognized Career and Technical Education Center.
Moss Sweedler
Moss Sweedler, also known as Moss Eisenberg Sweedler, is an American mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, who established Hopf algebra theory and created the Sweedler notation.
Moss walls and moss installations in interior design
A preserved moss wall is an interior feature of real moss or lichen treated with glycerin to stay soft without water, light, or maintenance, valued for texture and acoustics.
MOSS-TTS
MOSS-TTS is an open-source speech and sound generation model family from the OpenMOSS team, a research group under Shanghai Innovation Institution working with Fudan University, released under Apache 2.0.
Moss-type LNG containment
Moss-type LNG containment is a cargo containment system for LNG carriers in which the cargo sits in free-standing aluminum spheres, developed in Norway in the late 1960s.
Mossack Fonseca
Mossack Fonseca was a Panamanian law firm founded in 1986 by Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca, specializing in offshore shell company incorporation. Its leaked files (11.5 million documents) became the 2016 Panama Papers; the firm closed in 2018, and its founders were acquitted in Panama in 2024.
Mossad
Mossad (המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים) is Israel's foreign intelligence and covert operations agency, founded 1949 under Reuven Shiloah, answering to the Prime Minister's office, distinct from Shin Bet and Aman, with no dedicated public statute.
Mossad activities in Iran
Mossad activities in Iran: covert Israeli intelligence operations inside Iran since 1979, including Stuxnet sabotage, nuclear-scientist assassinations, the 2018 nuclear archive theft, the Haniyeh killing, and the June 2025 Operation Rising Lion pre-positioned sabotage campaign.
Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre
Operation Wrath of God (Mivtza Za'am Ha'el): Mossad's covert assassination campaign authorized by Golda Meir after the 1972 Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes; eight European killings 1972-1973, enabled by Club de Berne intelligence, ending with the Lillehammer mistaken-identity killing.
Mössbauer spectroscopy
Mössbauer spectroscopy is a nuclear technique using recoil-free gamma-ray absorption, mainly of iron-57, to probe the local electronic and magnetic environment of atoms in solids.
Mossberg 500
The Mossberg 500 is a pump-action shotgun series produced by O.F. Mossberg & Sons of North Haven, Connecticut since 1961, with over 11 million made.
Mossel Bay
Mossel Bay (Mosselbaai) is a Garden Route harbour town in the Western Cape, South Africa, seat of a 2,007 km² municipality of 140,075 people (2022), where Dias landed in 1488 and Pinnacle Point caves hold 164,000-year-old shellfish evidence.
Mosses as bioindicators of air pollution
Mosses as bioindicators of air pollution describes how mosses absorb airborne metals and nitrogen into their tissue, so chemical analysis records the pollution reaching a site.
Mosses from an Old Manse
Mosses from an Old Manse is an 1846 short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, his second, gathering "Young Goodman Brown," "The Birthmark," and "Rappaccini's Daughter."
Mosses of Great Britain
Mosses of Great Britain: 795 moss species in Britain and Ireland per the 2020 checklist, about two-thirds of Europe's bryophyte flora, mapped in the 2014 Atlas from 2.83 million records, with 59 critically endangered species on the 2023 Red List.
Mossi people
The Mossi are a West African people and Burkina Faso's largest ethnic group, about 54 percent of the population in 2021, known for the pre-colonial Mossi kingdoms of the Volta Basin.
Mossi raid on Timbuktu
The Mossi raid on Timbuktu was a 14th-century sack of the city by the Mossi army, which drove off its Malian garrison and looted it.
Mossi raids on Mali
The Mossi raids on Mali were 14th- and 15th-century cavalry expeditions from the Mossi kingdoms of the upper Volta, chiefly Yatenga, against Timbuktu, Walata, and Mali's provinces.
Mossimo
Mossimo is an American apparel brand founded in 1986 by Mossimo Giannulli, taken public in 1996, licensed exclusively to Target from 2000, sold to Iconix in 2006, and dropped by Target in 2017.
Mossimo Giannulli
Mossimo Giannulli, also known as Massimo Giannulli, is an American fashion designer who founded Mossimo, Inc. and later married actress Lori Loughlin.
Mossoró
Mossoró, second largest city of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; semi-arid interior hub, Brazil's largest salt and onshore oil producer, melon exporter, early abolition (1883), first female vote (1928), resisted Lampião (1927).
Most (city)
Most (Brüx), Czech city of 63,160 in northern Bohemia, whose medieval old town was demolished from 1964 to 1987 for brown coal mining; its Gothic church was moved 840 metres on rails.