See mossy horn on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From mossy (“referring to the fact that horns become wrinkly and scaly with age”) + horn.",
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"ref": "1948, Dorothy M. Johnson, Beyond the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 129:",
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