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Meanings of mosslike in English

Moss-like.

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Examples for "moss-like"
1
The surrounding district was devoted to the cultivation of the moss-like food-plants.
Star Maker
2
The specimens were both white and red, resembling the moss-like sprigs often seen in museums.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
3
I could smell the moss-like smell of bock beer; I even remembered conversations we had had.
The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American...
4
Pine and oak trees covered the heights, shrouded with long fringes and festoons of the moss-like Tillandsia.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
5
His hands found the edges of rocks protruding from the mud, and the soft matting of moss-like grass.
Speaks the Nightbird
Usage of mosslike in English
1
Terminum was a grid of small hexagons of a mosslike substance.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
2
One of the stones had a natural basin with mosslike water plants lining it.
The Shelters of Stone
3
Miller seemed to flicker out of existence, reappearing at the edge of the mosslike walls.
Abaddon's Gate
4
A green, mosslike fuzz covered the ground.
Once
5
Her dense, mosslike hair she had piled high on her head in an intricate mass of knots and braids.
Brisingr
6
Upon them were black mosslike encrustations of age, and they were bent and scarred from the attacks of long-forgotten teeth.
Men, Women, and Boats
7
I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles.
A Princess of Mars
8
They crackled annoyingly as he waded through them, booted feet crunching on the spindly mosslike grass that grew deep in the jungle.
The Reality Dysfunction
9
Then scrub the mussels with a stiff brush under running water and yank off the mosslike "beard," using pliers if necessary.
Mastering the grill: the owner's manual for outdoor cooking
10
Before them, beyond a stretch of mosslike lawn and a broad sandy beach, rolled the sea, brilliantly blue, with the waves curling dazzlingly white.
Elsie Marley, Honey
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Mosslike through the time