spanish_moss (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *Spanish moss*:
NOUN	plant	Spanish moss, old man's beard, 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

English > *Spanish moss*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
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.
Synonyms	old man's beard, 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

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