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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

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

The task was challenging - not only are the frogs tiny, they are extremely well camouflaged to blend into their mossy homes.

From BBC Feb. 2, 2025

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

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2024

He led the wounded fox to a mossy circle of shade beneath a pine.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

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




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