Sanitary Cope Moss

Latin sānitās, health — adjectival suffix -ary. As a color modifier, sanitary implies a clear-and-clean-and-medical quality, the crisp color of Bauhaus-and-Modern clinical-and-hospital interior-architecture white-tile-and-stainless-steel surfaces. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to hygienic and sterile in usage.

Latin cappa, long-ecclesiastical-cloak. As a color modifier, cope implies a long-ecclesiastical-cloak-and-bishop's-cope quality, the visual register of Anglican-and-Catholic-bishop's-cope hand-long-ecclesiastical-cloak-and-bishop's-cope Anglican-and-Catholic-bishop's-cope-and-Westminster-and-Vatican cope-and-long-ecclesiastical-cloak surfaces under Anglican-and-Catholic-bishop's-cope-and-Westminster-and-Vatican Westminster-Abbey-and-Sistine-Chapel ecclesiastical-cloak-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to cloak and cape 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.