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Mossy

Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.

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Similar meaning 2

Covered 84% connected

of Cover

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Covered 84% connected

of Cover

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Moss 74% connected

A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, an…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Moss 74% connected

A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, an…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Synonym 2

Moss-grown 92% connected

Overgrown with moss.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Stodgy 92% connected

Wet.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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