| NOUN | plant | old man's beard, Spanish moss, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides | dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree ... / tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots |
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| plant | old man's beard, traveler's joy, traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba | vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn | |
| plant | old man's beard, virgin's bower, devil's darning needle, Clematis virginiana | common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers |
| Meaning | dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree ... / tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America. | |
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| Synonyms | Spanish moss, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides | |
| Member of | Tillandsia, genus Tillandsia | large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses |
| Broader | air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plant | plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain |
| Meaning | vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn. | |
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| Synonyms | traveler's joy, traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba | |
| Broader | clematis | Any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers |
| Catalan | Clematis vitalba | |
| Meaning | Common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers. | |
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| Synonyms | virgin's bower, devil's darning needle, Clematis virginiana | |
| Broader | clematis | Any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers |
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