Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling moss or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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moss +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The children had short, mosslike hair with tiny star-shaped flowers.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • Even the sparse wiry mountain grass was gone from the rocky hillsides now, and the only vegetation was a thick, dry, mosslike growth, or tough lichens.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Though there was no beach, the mosslike ground cover that grew down to the water's edge provided comfortable padding beneath their backs.

    Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Even the mosslike ground cover over which they had spread their blanket was black and shriveled.

    Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Even the sparse wiry mountain grass was gone from the rocky hillsides now, and the only vegetation was a thick, dry, mosslike growth, or tough lichens.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

  • Patches of mosslike vegetation covered some of the hilltops, growing mostly on the rotting remains of long-dead trees and grasses.

    INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000

  • On any healthy world, the plant life would have obscured it long ago, but here there were only patches of the mosslike growth they had seen elsewhere and the softening of the edges by ten years of weather.

    INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000

  • Patches of mosslike vegetation covered some of the hilltops, growing mostly on the rotting remains of long-dead trees and grasses.

    INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000

  • On any healthy world, the plant life would have obscured it long ago, but here there were only patches of the mosslike growth they had seen elsewhere and the softening of the edges by ten years of weather.

    INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000

  • Patches of mosslike vegetation covered some of the hilltops, growing mostly on the rotting remains of long-dead trees and grasses.

    INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000

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