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View synonyms for moss-grown

moss-grown

[ maws-grohn, mos- ]

adjective

  1. overgrown with moss.
  2. old-fashioned; antiquated:

    moss-grown traditions.



moss-grown

adjective

  1. covered with moss


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Word History and Origins

Origin of moss-grown1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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Example Sentences

It was the home that had sheltered her orphan childhood; she had never slept a night from under its moss-grown roof.

Blind Sorrel was lying by the moss-grown horse-trough, at the gate.

The view on one side was lost in the dark labyrinth of the moss-grown trunks of the forest.

It was a little spot, screened by an old moss-grown paling, from the neighbouring garden on the one side and a lane on the other.

Only a single column marks the confused heap of moss-grown ruins belonging to the temple of Hercules.

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