- mossy
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adjective
(mossier; -est)
Date: 15th century
1. resembling moss
2. covered with moss or something like moss
3. antiquated <the mossy precepts of the…prescriptive grammarians — Thomas Pyles>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
mossy
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