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

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

These fibers form a contact point to pyramidal cells -- the mossy fiber synapse.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024

Locusts, songbirds, the wailing wind, Peach—the whole world was alive with noise and the mossy smell that came before a big rain.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles