moss-like

After awhile, the ground becomes covered with a moss-like growth that is difficult to remove and grows quickly.

REVIEW: Splinter by Adam Roberts 2007

Phister who starts on the bottom of the structure which is powered by nuclear energy , with engines slowly breaking down and spewing radioactive detritus, is a young/old sixteen years of age teen on a quest; toothless, hairless and subsisting on a drug moss-like nutrient as all his peers, he will encounter unexpected marvels.

"Filaria" by Brent Hayward (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2009

Upon closer inspection, tiny green tops are beginning to show, so easy to miss, but in a weeks time will be a soft almost moss-like cover and a tender shade of green.

Liz Neumark: Farm Visit - Early Spring 2009 2009

How wonderful her moss-like growing huge hair... they probably soft and warm on touch.

bad dreams good nightmares Scott Altmann 2007

Farther on were other tufts of moss in islands divided by the shed leaves — variety upon variety, dark green and pale green; moss-like little fir-trees, like plush, like malachite stars, like nothing on earth except moss.

The Woodlanders 2006

I mounted the side of a brown hill covered with moss-like grass, and here and there heather.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

They contrast curiously with the hard felspathic stones and the lithographic calcaires bearing the moss-like impress of metallic dendrites; these occur in many parts near the seaboard, and we found them in Southern as well as in Northern Midian.

The Land of Midian 2003

Exposition enclosure along the south boundary line, where a wall fifty feet high and ten feet wide has been erected of a solid green moss-like growth, studded with myriads of tiny pink star-like blossoms.

The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Louis Christian Mullgardt

The male plants (Fig.  66, _J_) are very small, often barely visible to the naked eye, and when growing thickly form dense, moss-like patches.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

Of the former the majority are tropical, but are common in greenhouses where they are prized for their delicate moss-like foliage (Fig.  74, _A_).

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell