moss-grown

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɒsɡɹəʊn/    美 /ˈmɔsˌɡɹoʊn/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having a covering of growing moss.
    — Diſeaſed nature oftentimes breakes forth, / In ſtrange eruptions, oft the teeming earth / Is with a kind of collicke pincht and vext, / By the impriſoning of vnruly wind / Within her vvombe, vvhich for enlargement ſtriuing / Shakes the old Beldame earth, and topples down / Steeples and moſſegrovvn towers.
  2. Old; old-fashioned, out of date. figuratively
    — To find one's self suddenly translated from the wild, flowery prairie into the heart of an aged, moss-grown village, of such foreign aspect, withal, was by no means easy to reconcile with one's notions of reality.

词形变化

more moss-grown comparative most moss-grown superlative mossgrown alternative

词汇关系

相关词
grass-grown

词源

From moss + grown. Sense 2 (“old; old-fashioned, out of date”) refers to the fact that moss will often grow on an object that has remained outdoors in one place for some time.
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