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mossy

[maw-see, mos-ee] / ˈmɔ si, ˈmɒs i /




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

From BBC ● May 19, 2025

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

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024

The massive neck dips, casting a curving shadow on the mossy ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 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

It feels strange to be on a narrow, mossy ledge.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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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