mossgrown

English

Etymology

moss +‎ grown

Adjective

mossgrown (comparative more mossgrown, superlative most mossgrown)

  1. On which moss is growing.
    • 1895, Sophie Francis Fane Veitch, A modern crusader
      […] a rusty iron gate, between solid but mouldy stone pillars, surmounted with mossgrown stone balls […]

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