Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mossy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mossy \Moss"y\, a. [Compar. {Mossier}; superl. {Mossiest}.]
1. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss;
as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
Old trees are more mossy far than young. --Bacon.
2. Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mossy
adj 1: overgrown with moss [syn: {moss-grown}]
2: (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned;
"moss-grown ideas about family life" [syn: {fogyish}, {moss-grown},
{stick-in-the-mud(p)}, {stodgy}]
3: resembling moss [syn: {mosslike}, {musciform}]
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