cup-mossn.
(a) A lichen, Scyphophorus pyxidatus or Cladonia pyxidata, having cup-shaped processes arising from the thallus. (b) Locally applied to the cudbear n., Lecanora tartarea, from its cup-shaped fructification.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1371 Muscus Pyxidatos, which I haue englished Cup Mosse, or Chalice Mosse.
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 227 Cup Moss..with some other Mosses have been mightily in vogue amongst the good Wives for their children's Coughs.
1794 Donaldson Agric. Surv. Banffshire 60 (Jam.) A species of moss named cud bear or cup moss.
a1835 F. D. Hemans Summer's Call in Poet. Wks. (1836) 213/2 Where the fairy cup-moss lies.
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