mossbound

English

Etymology

From moss +‎ bound.

Adjective

mossbound (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Covered in moss.
    • 1967, Peter Scott, Happy the Man, page 148:
      Here we decided to make camp beside a mossbound spring, in the lee of the steep richly flowered bank.
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