Definition of Mossgrown

1. a. Overgrown with moss.

Definition of Mossgrown

1. Adjective. On which moss is growing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mossgrown

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mossgrown

moss genus
moss green
moss lawn
moss locust
moss phlox
moss pink
moss starch
mossback
mossbacked
mossbacks
mossbunker
mossed
mosser
mossers
mosses
mossgrown (current term)
mossie
mossier
mossies
mossiest
mossily
mossiness
mossinesses
mossing
mossland
mosslands
mossless
mosslike
mosso
mosstone

Literary usage of Mossgrown

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"The last half-hour's walk was over slippery mossgrown limestone boulders, and the air was strongly impregnated with the odour of the bats' and swifts' ..."

2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1912)
"A stone crumbling and mossgrown, but appears to show NS at right end oí second line—presumably Stevens. The verse, however, is legible, and identical with ..."

3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"Every object, the very soil even, seemed mossgrown and hoary with time departed. More than seventy years have passed away since its settlement commenced; ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1916)
"... and mossgrown, evidently passing through the last stages of decay. Many years later, he passed through the same district and found that the wood had ..."

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