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Spanish moss

DEFINITIONS OF: Spanish moss

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n 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

Synonyms:
Tillandsia usneoides, black moss, long moss, old man's beard
Type of:
aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant
plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
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