NOUN
- lichen with branched flattened partly erect thallus that grows in mountainous and Arctic regions; used as a medicine or food for humans and livestock; a source of glycerol
How To Use Iceland moss In A Sentence
- I will state in passing that the Report for 1855 also contains notices of the best mode of cultivating many other medicinal plants -- such as the rhatany, gall-nut oak, Iceland moss, liquorice, quassia, senna, gum arabic, etc. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- Iceland Moss contains the form of starch called "lichenin. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
