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mossing

mossing

8.5
The act of gathering soft green moss from rocks or trees for crafts
  • noun
translation icon : recolección de musgo
  • In the forest, we observed mossing on the old tree trunks, giving them a lush green appearance.

Examples

  • After the rain, the ground showed evidence of mossing, as patches of green began to spread across the rocks.

  • Spanish mossing into drapey shapes in the corners.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The gardener enjoyed mossing the stones in the pathway to create a natural look.

Surface Forms

mossing singular
mossings plural

Morphology

mossing = moss (transparent) = moss + ing

Formed transparently from 'moss' + the nominalizing/-ing suffix; learners who know 'moss' and the -ing pattern can infer the act or process meaning.

Etymology

Mossing comes from the simple word moss, the soft green plant that makes a 'soft green carpet' on rocks and trees, and the ending -ing turns it into an action or process, like in mossy. So, mossing means either collecting moss or the slow process of becoming covered with it.