Definition of "mossgrown" []

• Overgrown with moss. (adjective)
• Old-fashioned; antiquated: mossgrown ideas about family life. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The last house vanished, glowing in the early sunshine, and the carriage with its trail of dust became entombed once more in the gloom of tall trees, along a road that cleft a wilderness of mossgrown rocks, and dewy stems, through which the sun had not yet driven paths."
• "Highway -- between Boston and Philadelphia, there are mossgrown stones that were set under the supervision of Benjamin Franklin when he was colonial Postmaster-General."
• "If a planter of the days when the royal colony of South Carolina was in the height of its glory could return now, and wander through the streets of mossgrown Beaufort, he would be amazed, but no more so than would the planter of 1850 or 1860, if he too might return."