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# mossy

«mossy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Covered with moss, the soft, green, low plant that grows…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (mossy, mossier, mossiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Covered with moss, the soft, green, low plant that grows on damp stones, trees and ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/#m1)

2) Like moss: soft, green and springy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science (moss grows in damp, shady places, often on the north side of trees in the Northern Hemisphere, though this is not a reliable compass) and in stories to paint a quiet, old, damp place: mossy stones, mossy walls, a mossy forest floor. Safety: mossy rocks and steps are slippery.

### examples

- The path through the woods was soft and mossy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/#x1)
- Be careful, those mossy rocks are slippery! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/#x2)
- An old mossy wall ran round the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/#x3)
- The frog sat on a mossy log by the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/#x4)
- We found tiny insects living in the mossy bark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/#x5)
- The roof of the shed was green and mossy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/#x6)
- The fairy house was built on a mossy stump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/#x7)
- As usual, her attendants let her do anything she pleased, and sitting down on a mossy bank where a little stream tinkled by, soon fell sound asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/#x8)

### note

Adjective from "moss" + "-y". Comparative "mossier", superlative "mossiest". Myth: moss does not always grow on the north side of trees, so it is not a safe way to find north.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mossy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mossy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.