Velvety ground cover
The crossword clue "Velvety ground cover" is answered by MOSS, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MOSS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MOSS answer page.
Used 12 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MOSS
Every other clue in this collection answered by MOSS, most used first.
- Rolling stone's lack - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Forest growth - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Playwright Hart - used 30 times, most recently in 2023
- Green shade - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Forest floor growth - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Bryophyte - used 18 times, most recently in 1999
- Terrarium growth - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- "A rolling stone gathers no ___" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Shade of green - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Rolling stone's supposed lack - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Rock cover - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Velvety growth - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- It grows on trees - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Lichen - used 11 times, most recently in 2001
- Tree trunk growth - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Green growth - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Trunk growth - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Rock growth - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Velvety green growth - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Peat source - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Sphagnum, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Velvety flora - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Velvety plant - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Seed cover - ARIL, used 116 times
- Wound cover - SCAB, used 86 times
- Pillow cover - SHAM, used 82 times
- Get __ the ground floor - INON, used 81 times
- Cover with asphalt - PAVE, used 50 times
- Swampy ground - MIRE, used 49 times
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