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mossbound en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English moss Old Norse búinnbor. Middle English bownde English bound English mossbound From moss + bound.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, poetic) Covered in moss.
    • Here we decided to make camp beside a mossbound spring, in the lee of the steep richly flowered bank. 1967, Peter Scott, Happy the Man, page 148: