moss-grown
Americanadjective
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overgrown with moss.
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old-fashioned; antiquated.
moss-grown traditions.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of moss-grown
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
In some places the trees were of a great height and girth, making a gloom over the huge moss-grown granite rocks strewing the earth and edging the little stream....
From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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