mossy

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Their brains also contained more "mossy cells" within the hippocampus, a region essential for learning and memory.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 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

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

I try to picture it—the two of them rolling out onto the mossy forest floor amid indignant curses.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen