苔むす

こけむす

to become covered in moss; to become mossy; to grow over with moss

苔

こけ コケ

moss

転石苔生さず

てんせきこけむさず

a rolling stone gathers no moss

花苔

はなごけ はなこけ

reindeer moss

青苔

せいたい あおごけ あおこけ

green moss

舌苔

ぜったい

fur (on one's tongue)

苔類

たいるい こけるい

bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)

アイスランド苔

アイスランドごけ イスランドごけ

Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica), Iceland lichen

苔癬

たいせん

lichen

角苔

つのごけ ツノゴケ

hornwort

苔虫

こけむし コケムシ

moss animal (any animal of phylum Bryozoa)

苔玉

kokedama; moss ball; plant grown in a ball of soil covered in moss, held together with string

杉苔

すぎごけ

hair moss

苔状

たいじょう こけじょう

mossy

苔桃

こけもも コケモモ

cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), mountain cranberry, foxberry, partridgeberry

掃苔

そうたい

visit to a family grave (esp. during the Bon festival)

銭苔

ぜにごけ

liverwort

海苔

のり

nori (edible seaweed, esp. species Porphyra tenera and others of genus Porphyra, usu. dried and pressed into sheets), laver

蘚苔

せんたい

moss, bryophyte