moss-grown

[ maws-grohn, mos- ]

/ ˈmɔsˌgroʊn, ˈmɒs- /

overgrown with moss.

old-fashioned; antiquated: moss-grown traditions.

Origin of moss-grown

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

A few detached trees come half-way down the valley bank to meet the gnarled, moss-grown Thorns and the silver-green Junipers.

Wood and Garden |Gertrude Jekyll
Blind Sorrel was lying by the moss-grown horse-trough, at the gate.

Chanticleer |Cornelius Mathews
At the end of one of the yew walks was a rusty astrolabe on a moss-grown marble pedestal, and by this he found her.

In Brief Authority |F. Anstey
A moss-grown but stood at the edge of the forest, and before it sat Ulrich, talking with the coal-burner.

A Word Only A Word, Complete |Georg Ebers

Presently she sat down on a moss-grown stump and thought deeply.

A Little Bush Maid |Mary Grant Bruce

moss-grown

covered with moss