Mossy \Moss"y\, a. [Compar. {Mossier}; superl. {Mossiest}.] 1. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
Old trees are more mossy far than young. --Bacon.
2. Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
A survey earlier this year determined there were fewer than 150 of the half-pound rodents _ one of 25 genetically distinct subspecies of the red squirrel _ scurrying over the mossy, spruce-covered slopes of 10,500-foot Emerald Peak.
Where trees 6 feet in diameter once towered over the mossy forest floor, acres of stumps and rotten wood now litter the scarred earth.
On a muddy hilltop in Rock Creek Park, Vincent Palumbo picks his way among the mossy, broken blocks of sandstone that once were part of the nation's Capitol.
It is as creole as crawfish and gumbo, and just as luscious with its mossy sets and pastel costumes.