Spanish moss
1.
(
noun
) dense festoons of greenish-gray hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
Synonyms:
Tillandsia usneoides
,
black moss
,
long moss
,
old man's beard
Related Words:
aerophyte
,
air plant
,
epiphyte
,
epiphytic plant
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