单词 | unmossed |
释义 | unmossedadj. Not covered with moss or a mossy substance. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [adjective] > not covered with moss unmossed1818 mossless1834 1818 Trans. Hort. Soc. London (ed. 2) 2 242 Shoots of the common Moss Rose [have been known] to produce unmossed flowers. 1840 Family Mag. 8 319/1 A solid mass of rock... Its naked and unmossed sides looking as if it was but the work of yesterday. 1863 J. R. Lowell Memoriae Positum i. 14 Bleaker than unmossed stone. 1921 Amer. Forestry Mar. 165/2 The merry greenwood tree has been reduced to a stump, the sylvan dells to parched fields and unmossed rocks. 2002 E. Wright Last Hand i. 2 Seth slowed down, moving warily, getting footholds on the tiny patches of pink unmossed rock. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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