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Etymology
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Noun
polster (plural polsters)
- (botany) A clump of moss; a glacier mouse.
1915 April, F. J. Smiley, “The alpine and subapline vegetation of the Lake Tahoe region”, in Botanical Gazette, volume 59, page 265:It is on this rocky surface that one finds many of the growth forms associated with extreme life conditions: polsters, mat plants, espaliers.
1972, Calvin J. Heusser, “Polsters of the moss Drepanocladus berggrenii on Gilkey Glacier, Alaska”, in Torreya, volume 99, number 1, pages 34–36:The polsters give the glacier the appearance of a cobble-strewn surface.
1991, P. R. Cundill, “Comparisons of moss polster and pollen trap data: a pilot study”, in Grana, volume 30, number 2, →DOI:Moss polsters were sampled using an equivalent surface cross-section area to that of the traps.
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