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moss-grown

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moss´-grown`
a.1.Overgrown with moss; mossy.
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Adj.1.moss-grown - overgrown with moss
mossy
covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"
2.moss-grown - (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"
fogyish, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy, mossy
unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"
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As Thar Ban rode noiselessly up the broad avenue which leads from the quays of Aaanthor to the great central plaza, he and his mount might have been mistaken for spectres from a world of dreams, so grotesque the man and beast, so soundless the great thoat's padded, nailless feet upon the moss-grown flagging of the ancient pavement.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
All that Edmond had been able to do was to drag himself about a dozen paces forward to lean against a moss-grown rock.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
It had the usual country- schoolhouse form--belonged to the packing-box order of architecture; had an underpinning of stones, a moss-grown roof, and blank window spaces, whence both glass and sash had long departed.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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