mossy
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Fed from glaciers on Mount Shasta, the water pours out of lava tubes and down mossy cliffs, forming a verdant and ethereal cascade into a calm, shaded swimming hole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
These fibers form a contact point to pyramidal cells -- the mossy fiber synapse.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
Highly theatrical, it saw the 35-year-old perform inside a mossy grotto, singing on top of a giant mechanical beetle and ascending a tree trunk in fairy wings.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2024
The style is evocative and creepy, thanks to rich production and costume design, the cramped house seemingly lost in time, surrounded by a damp, mossy forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
Roosevelt and the others below, who were up to their armpits in water and slipping on the mossy rocks, tied the rope to the outermost canoe.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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
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
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
