moss-grown
Meaning
Adjective
- Having a covering of growing moss.
- Old; old-fashioned, out of date.
Origin
- From moss + grown. Sense 2 (“old; old-fashioned, out of date”) refers to the fact that moss will often grow on an object that has remained outdoors in one place for some time.
Modern English dictionary
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