HyperDic: beard_lichen

English > 1 sense of the expression *beard lichen*:
NOUN	plant	beard lichen, beard moss, Usnea barbata	greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees

English > *beard lichen*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees.
Synonyms	beard moss, Usnea barbata
Member of	Usnea, genus Usnea	widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus
Broader	lichen	Any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes