moss-grown

American  

[maws-grohn, mos-] / ˈmɔsˌgroʊn, ˈmɒs- /

adjective

1. overgrown with moss.

2. old-fashioned; antiquated.

   moss-grown traditions.

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moss-grown British  

adjective

1. covered with moss

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Etymology

Origin of moss-grown

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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Example Sentences

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moss-grown

Two endangered birds, the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, nest in the moss-grown upper limbs of the ancient trees.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its 2,000 readers supposed that like almost everything else in their quiet, moss-grown city, the Journal would now drowse off to sleep.

From Time Magazine Archive

Redheaded, 67-year-old Jim Duff was locked in a rousing fight with the moss-grown, reactionary forces of bright-eyed, apple-cheeked, 87-year-old Joe Grundy.

From Time Magazine Archive

They found a temple all slimy and moss-grown, but not quite in ruins, and there they gave thanks for their escape and prayed for help in their dreadful loneliness.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

It was a tight bit of work, struggling upwards under a tropical rain over the slippery moss-grown blocks, every cranny and projection thickly studded with creeping plants.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

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