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Moldy vs Moly - What's the difference?

moldy | moly |

As an adjective moldy

is covered with mold.

As a noun moly is

noise.

moldy

English

Alternative forms

* mouldy (UK)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Covered with mold.
  • Stale or musty.

    • moly

    English

    Noun

    (molies)
  • A magic herb or plant used by .
  • *, II.4.1.iii:
  • *:It excels Homers moly , cures this, falling sickness, and almost all other infirmities.
  • * 1980 , Walter Shrewing, trans. Homer, The Odyssey , Oxford 1998, p.120:
    • So spoke the Radiant One; then gave me the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly .
  • Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, .
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