Usually means: Covered with or resembling moss.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word Mossy:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. mossy: Merriam-Webster
  2. mossy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mossy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mossy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mossy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mossy, mossy: Wordnik
  7. mossy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mossy: Wiktionary
  9. mossy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mossy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mossy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mossy, mossy: Dictionary.com
  13. Mossy (Farthing Wood), Mossy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Mossy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. mossy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. mossy: Rhymezone
  17. mossy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mossy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. mossy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. mossy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mossy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mossy, mossy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mossy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mossier as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mossy)

▸ adjective:  Covered in or overgrown with moss.
▸ noun:  (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of mossie (“mosquito”) [(South Africa) Any of various species of sparrow, especially Passer melanurus.]

Similar:
mosslike, moss-grown, colored, stodgy, chromatic, stick-in-the-mud, covered, fogyish, nonmodern, mossened, more...

Opposite:
clean, fresh, new, modern, sleek

Types:
shaggy, furry, velvety, woolly, fluffy, hairy, shiny, spiky, crinkly, more...

Phrases:
mossy fiber, mossy fibres, mossy forest, mossy cells, mossy cell, more...

Adjectives:
old, more, cerebellar, green, little, soft, beautiful, own, fine, dear, fresh

Colors:
    moss green,     olive,     sage,     fern,     forest green, more...

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Similar:
mosslike, moss-grown, colored, stodgy, chromatic, stick-in-the-mud, covered, fogyish, nonmodern, mossened, more...

Opposite:
clean, fresh, new, modern, sleek

Types:
shaggy, furry, velvety, woolly, fluffy, hairy, shiny, spiky, crinkly, more...

Phrases:
mossy fiber, mossy fibres, mossy forest, mossy cells, mossy cell, mossy zinc, mossy saxifrage, mossy saxifrages, mossy cup oak, mossy stonecrop, mossy wetland, mossy marsh growth, mossy green, old mossy stone, more...

Adjectives:
old, more, cerebellar, green, little, soft, beautiful, own, fine, dear, fresh

Colors:
    moss green,     olive,     sage,     fern,     forest green, more...



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