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Reindeer moss   /rˈeɪndˌɪr mɔs/   Listen
Reindeer moss

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: arctic moss, Cladonia rangiferina, reindeer lichen.






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"Reindeer moss" Quotes from Famous Books



... "if there be fresh-baked bread in the regimental ovens yonder, fetch a loaf, in God's name. I could gnaw black-birch and reindeer moss, so famished am I—and the Sagamore, too, no doubt, could rattle a flam with a ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers

... they have an air of pretending to be very ancient, to be the ruins of mountains. They are picturesque and colorful. And I would swap a league of them for one archaic boulder the size of a box-car, with a thick coverlet of reindeer moss. ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor



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