Welcoming Pimento Moss

Old English wel-cuman, well-coming — present-participle of welcome. As a color modifier, welcoming implies a clear-and-inviting-and-warm quality where the hue carries the visual register of cordial-and-hospitable color-tone. Sits at the crisp-and-cheerful end of the grid, parallel to hospitable and inviting in usage.

Spanish pimiento, sweet-red-Iberian-capsicum. As a color modifier, pimento implies a sweet-red-Iberian-capsicum-and-allspice-berry quality, the visual register of Spanish-and-Jamaican-pimento hand-sweet-red-Iberian-capsicum-and-allspice-berry Spanish-and-Jamaican-pimento-and-allspice-berry pimento-and-sweet-red-Iberian-capsicum surfaces under Spanish-and-Jamaican-pimento-and-allspice-berry Iberian-and-Jamaican-Blue-Mountain Iberian-and-Jamaican-spice-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to chili and pepper in usage.

Bryophyta — the nonvascular plants that colonized land 470 million years ago, before vascular plants and far before flowers. The color refers to a thick mat of Hypnum or sphagnum on a temperate forest floor: a soft, slightly yellow-shifted green with the velvet texture of millimeter-scale leaves. Dustier than fern, deeper than lichen, with the slow patience of a plant that lives by absorbing rain through its surface.