mossy
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- adjective
- /ˈmɔsi/
:
musgoso
- I waded the creek on slippery, mossy stones, stumbling and sliding.
- mossy rock
- mossy green
- mossy stone
Examples
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Sammy and I sat on a mossy rock by the shore, watching fat dragonflies hover over the lake.
Fiction book (1997) -
Nothing is left of the gate, just this pile of logs grown mossy on their north faces.
Fiction book (2001) -
Some is worked into the outer part of the mossy wall, giving it strength.
Academic text (1994) -
The ground beneath the huge old oak is mossy now, where feet have worn it smooth.
Fiction book (1992) -
Light fell through the overhead canopy of leaves, dappling the mossy ground with green, shifting shapes.
Fiction book (2002) -
Water oozed and dripped from mossy embedded shale into the pool, sending shivers across the surface.
Fiction book (1998) -
The koa rose ahead, massive trunks trailing yards of mossy vines, great hoary giants rooted in time.
Fiction book (1992) -
We crossed the road to avoid Saint Thomas's Churchyard, where the mossy gravestones gazed lopsidedly at us through the gloom.
Fiction book (1994) -
The forest floor was covered in a thick layer of mossy green, making it feel soft underfoot.
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During our hike, we stopped to admire the mossy rocks that had formed a natural carpet along the stream.
Synonyms
Covered with soft green moss, often on old stone or wood
Covered with a soft green plant that grows on wet surfaces
A soft green surface like the small plant moss
Antonyms
Compounds
How Mossy
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mossy comes from moss, the small green plant that grows on stones and trees, plus the ending -y which means 'full of' or 'covered with', like in snowy. So mossy means 'covered with moss'.