Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)A gray epiphyte that hangs down from trees, Tillandsia usneoides, native to the southeastern US and throughout humid tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas.

    Spanisches Moos

More definitions
  • dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America

Translations

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By meaning 1
Tillandsia usneoides:

Forms

plural: Spanish mosses
SingularSpanish moss

uncountable

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America:old man's beardblack mosslong mossTillandsia usneoides

See also

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