mossy

[ maw-see, mos-ee ]

/ ˈmɔ si, ˈmɒs i /

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adjective, moss·i·er, moss·i·est.

overgrown with or abounding in moss: a mossy stone.

covered with a mosslike growth.

appearing as if covered with moss.

resembling moss: a mossy softness.

old or outdated; antiquated: mossy ideas.

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Origin of mossy

First recorded in 1540–50; moss + -y¹

moss·i·ness, nounun·moss·y, adjective

I hadn’t, so she proceeded to slice open what resembled a mossy rock and serve it to me with a lemon squeeze.
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Now it’s back in Benjamin Moore’s Aegean Teal, a deep, muted blue-green-gray combination, the ocean’s equivalent of mossy Contemplative.
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Yet less than 15 minutes into our foray, a slender orange mushroom in a mossy ditch caught my eye, and I called out to the group leader.
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Speaking sparingly, eyes fixed to the ground, they traced the mossy, wooded flank of a tributary to the Susquehanna River.
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Instead of forming a nice flat surface, the new metal takes on interesting shapes — mossy structures called dendrites.
Batteries should not burst into flames|Carolyn Wilke|April 16, 2020|Science News For Students
I'm surrounded by mossy ruins that just barely retain the shape of a building.
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Then he turned to Evelyn's grave, and bending down, tried to read her name on the mossy stone.
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It was nearing midnight, and the clouds being thick and low made the mossy ground very dark.
The Underworld|James C. Welsh
The mossy surface of the dunes is frozen hard as iron, and often the hailstones rush in furious blasts before the wind.
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Gradually the cold began to tell upon him, and he started to his feet, plodding up the hill, through the soft mossy yielding soil.
The Underworld|James C. Welsh
Squire Wynne has now no land except that occupied by the Plas and its tangled and mossy and grassy and neglected gardens.
Mushroom Town|Oliver Onions