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mossy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective mossy has 2 senses
- mossy(s = adj.all) moss-grown - overgrown with moss; Array Derived form noun moss1
- mossy(s = adj.all) fogyish, moss-grown, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy - (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"
CIDE DICTIONARY
mossy, a.
- Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams. [1913 Webster]"Old trees are more mossy far than young." [1913 Webster]
- Resembling moss; as, mossy green. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mossy, adj. (mossier, mossiest)
1 covered in or resembling moss.
2 US sl. antiquated, old-fashioned.
1 covered in or resembling moss.
2 US sl. antiquated, old-fashioned.
Derivative
mossiness n.
ROGET THESAURUS
mossy
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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