The leafless plants have serpentine trunks and limbs and are covered in a dark green feltlike fuzz.

Seen from the sky, Mizoram seems to have been ploughed by a forgetful god who left the deep north-south furrows with a green fuzz of bamboo.

What's he supposed to be scared by, the possibility of some green fuzz getting caught in his hair?

In the west, the trees were even greener, and the fields that had just been tilled earlier were showing a green fuzz.

People tell horror stories of going to their cars and finding them coated with a menacing green fuzz, like targets of chemical warfare.

The ground wasn't hard and bare anymore; it was covered with slippery green fuzz.

Those mounds of nothing that Betina had described sprouted green fuzz in every bin.

The dirty dishes in the kitchen had already grown a green fuzz of mould, and the air was stale and disused.

Tiny fish wriggled in the coral, tearing at the green fuzz that grew over it.

Within the first day a soft green fuzz covered the gaunt outlines of the hills, and the trees lifted their drooping bare branches.