mossful

English

Etymology

From moss +‎ -ful.

Adjective

mossful (comparative more mossful, superlative most mossful)

  1. (rare, chiefly poetic) Full of or covered by moss; abundantly mossy.
    • 1864, David Masson, Macmillan's Magazine, page 159:
      Elder boughs were budding yet,
      Oaken boughs looked wintry still,
      But primrose and veined violet
      In the mossful turf were set, […]
    • 1872, Roden Noel, The Red Flag: And Other Poems, page 229:
      And delicate foliage made a shadowy thin
      Lacework suspended in aerial blue
      Silvery twilight, over where they two,
      Muffled in mossful secrecy, […]
    • 2018, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:
      Today is an especially mossful day.
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