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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

Fed from glaciers on Mount Shasta’s majestic slopes, Mossbrae Falls cascades out of lava tubes and down mossy cliffs into the Sacramento River in ethereal curtains of mist, sending rainbows dancing in all directions.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 2025

Further testing revealed that the rearrangement is tightly correlated with the functionality of 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

They carry armfuls of mossy soil back to Haye, whose moans are dying now.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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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