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mossy

/maw-see, mos-ee/US // ˈmɔ si, ˈmɒs i //

苔藓,有苔藓的,苔藓的,苔藓类

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    moss·i·er, moss·i·est.

    • : overgrown with or abounding in moss: a mossy stone.
    • : covered with a mosslike growth.
    • : appearing as if covered with moss.
    • : resembling moss: a mossy softness.
    • : old or outdated; antiquated: mossy ideas.

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Examples

  • Now it’s back in Benjamin Moore’s Aegean Teal, a deep, muted blue-green-gray combination, the ocean’s equivalent of mossy Contemplative.

  • Speaking sparingly, eyes fixed to the ground, they traced the mossy, wooded flank of a tributary to the Susquehanna River.

  • Yet less than 15 minutes into our foray, a slender orange mushroom in a mossy ditch caught my eye, and I called out to the group leader.

  • Instead of forming a nice flat surface, the new metal takes on interesting shapes — mossy structures called dendrites.

  • I'm surrounded by mossy ruins that just barely retain the shape of a building.

  • Then he turned to Evelyn's grave, and bending down, tried to read her name on the mossy stone.

  • It was nearing midnight, and the clouds being thick and low made the mossy ground very dark.

  • The mossy surface of the dunes is frozen hard as iron, and often the hailstones rush in furious blasts before the wind.

  • Gradually the cold began to tell upon him, and he started to his feet, plodding up the hill, through the soft mossy yielding soil.

  • Squire Wynne has now no land except that occupied by the Plas and its tangled and mossy and grassy and neglected gardens.