Definition: mossy

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

mossy
     adj 1: overgrown with moss [syn: moss-grown]
     2: (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned;
        "moss-grown ideas about family life" [syn: fogyish, moss-grown,
         stick-in-the-mud, stodgy]
     3: resembling moss [syn: mosslike, musciform]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Mossy \Moss"y\, a. [Compar. Mossier; superl. Mossiest.]
   1. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss;
      as, mossy trees; mossy streams.

            Old trees are more mossy far than young. --Bacon.

   2. Resembling moss; as, mossy green.