| NOUN | plant | long moss, Spanish moss, old man's beard, black 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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| 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, old man's beard, black 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 |
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