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moss-grown
[ maws-grohn, mos- ]
adjective
- overgrown with moss.
- old-fashioned; antiquated:
moss-grown traditions.
moss-grown
adjective
- covered with moss
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Word History and Origins
Origin of moss-grown1
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Example Sentences
It was the home that had sheltered her orphan childhood; she had never slept a night from under its moss-grown roof.
Blind Sorrel was lying by the moss-grown horse-trough, at the gate.
The view on one side was lost in the dark labyrinth of the moss-grown trunks of the forest.
It was a little spot, screened by an old moss-grown paling, from the neighbouring garden on the one side and a lane on the other.
Only a single column marks the confused heap of moss-grown ruins belonging to the temple of Hercules.
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