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Definition of Mossgrown
1. a. Overgrown with moss.
Definition of Mossgrown
1. Adjective. On which moss is growing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mossgrown
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mossgrown
Literary usage of Mossgrown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"The last half-hour's walk was over slippery mossgrown limestone boulders, and
the air was strongly impregnated with the odour of the bats' and swifts' ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1912)
"A stone crumbling and mossgrown, but appears to show NS at right end oí second
line—presumably Stevens. The verse, however, is legible, and identical with ..."
3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"Every object, the very soil even, seemed mossgrown and hoary with time departed.
More than seventy years have passed away since its settlement commenced; ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1916)
"... and mossgrown, evidently passing through the last stages of decay. Many years
later, he passed through the same district and found that the wood had ..."
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