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mossbound

mossbound adjective: covered in moss.

Adjective

mossbound (not comparable)

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

Origin of mossbound

From moss + bound.

Questions about mossbound

What does mossbound mean?
Mossbound means covered in moss.
What part of speech is mossbound?
Mossbound is an adjective.

Words near mossbound in the dictionary

  1. mossbankers
  2. Mossbay
  3. mossberries
  4. mossberry
  5. Mossblown
  6. mossbound
  7. Mossbrook
  8. Mossbrooks
  9. mossbunker
  10. mossbunkers
  11. Mossburg

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