noun
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
• Syn: ↑Spanish moss, ↑old man's beard, ↑black moss, ↑Tillandsia usneoides
• Hypernyms: ↑air plant, ↑epiphyte, ↑aerophyte, ↑epiphytic plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Tillandsia, ↑genus Tillandsia
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long moss noun
A tropical American rootless epiphyte (Tillandsia usneoides) of the pineapple family, resembling bunches of hair
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Main Entry: ↑long
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long moss,
= Spanish moss. (Cf. ↑Spanish moss)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.