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mossy

[maw-see, mos-ee] / ˈmɔ si, ˈmɒs i /




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The couple married in a mossy woodland by the river, and agreed they had the most "magical" wedding.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

This year's event favours rewilding and sustainability, with mossy paving, native planting and gravel paths.

From BBC May 19, 2025

"Back then, we were able to correlate structural changes in the mossy fiber synapses to their functionality," says Kim.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2024

These signals get transmitted through the granule cells' axons -- their arm-like extension, known as mossy fibers.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2024

At the center of the garden is a sunken lily pond with little mossy stairs that curve all the way around it.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

After that the most Jabez asked of Eddie was to write "Please remit" or "Past due" on the mossier bills.

From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes

The new cottages are finely designed, but they are too black-and-white and painty to group easily with the older, mossier buildings and the White Hart Inn, with its nobly ugly sign.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

Ah," he said, "I have done fifty, without food, over the roughest and mossiest mountains.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan




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