Crossword-Solution: MOSSY 5 letters, 85 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Mossy superl. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss;
as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
Mossy superl. Resembling moss; as, mossy green.

We have 85 clues for the answer “MOSSY”

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Like some green rocks 1 answer
Like the north side of some rocks 1 answer
Like the north side of a tree, supposedly 1 answer
Like the north side of a tree 1 answer
Like swamp hummocks 1 answer
Like some woodland rocks 1 answer
Like some wet ground 1 answer
Like some trunks 1 answer
Like some tree trunk areas 1 answer
Like some stream banks 1 answer
Like some shaded spots 1 answer
Like the north sides of some trees 1 answer
Like some green forest floors 1 answer
Like some forest rocks 1 answer
Like some forest ground 1 answer
Like some forest floors 1 answer
Like rocks in a stream 1 answer
Like poorly drained rock gardens 1 answer
Like forest rocks 1 answer
Like fallen logs 1 answer
Like a rock garden. 1 answer
Unlike a rolling stone, proverbially 1 answer
trunks Tree African 1 answer
What a rolling stone will not be 1 answer
What a rolling stone can never be 1 answer
What a rock garden is. 1 answer
Velvety, like some tree trunks 1 answer
Velvety, as a tree trunk 1 answer
Unlike the proverbial rolling stone 1 answer
Unlike rolling stones, supposedly 1 answer
Unlike rolling stones 1 answer
Like a forest glade 1 answer
Unlike a rolling Stone Actress 1 answer
Unlike Mick Jagger? 1 answer
Sphagnous 1 answer
Soft and green. 1 answer
Overgrown, as tree trunks 1 answer
Overgrown, as a tree trunk 1 answer
Overgrown with lichens. 1 answer
Mat-covered, as moist ground 1 answer
Like trees in a bog. 1 answer
Like a damp rock 1 answer
"A violet by a ___ stone . . . " 1 answer
A rolling stone is never ____ 1 answer
Antiquated, so to speak 1 answer
Bryophyte-covered 1 answer
Cousin of lichenous 1 answer
Covered in a green growth 1 answer
Covered in some green growth 1 answer
Covered with a matted, moist growth, as a forest floor 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZEMAE
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Sentences with MOSSY (5)

The paces slackened, turned in at the wicket, and, what was most unusual, came up the mossy path close to the door.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!” By this time Pearl had reached the margin of the brook, and stood on the further side, gazing silently at Hester and the clergyman, who still sat together on the mossy tree-trunk waiting to receive her.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Have we not seen, or by relation heard, In courts and regal chambers how thou lurk’st, In wood or grove, by mossy fountain-side, In valley or green meadow, to waylay Some beauty rare, Calisto, Clymene, Daphne, or Semele, Antiopa, Or Amymone, Syrinx, many more Too long—then lay’st thy scapes on names adored, Apollo, Neptune, Jupiter, or Pan, 190 Satyr, or Faun, or Silvan? But these haunts Delight not all.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
His forward movement was now confined to a slow drifting with the gentle breeze that blew out of the south-east, and when this died down with the setting of the sun, he let the flier sink gently to the mossy carpet beneath.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with MOSSY (3)

To Helen I saw thee once-once only-years ago; I must not say how many-but not many. It was a july midnight; and from out A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven, There fell a silvery-silken veil of light, With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber Upon the upturn'd faces of a thousand Roses that grew in an enchanted garden, Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe-Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That…
Edgar Allan Poe
You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good,” said Mossy. “It is better than life.”“No,” said the old man: “it is only more life.
George MacDonald The Golden Key
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.
James Hutton
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 112 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).