Definitions of Spanish moss
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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 Americasynonyms: Tillandsia usneoides, black moss, long moss, old man's beardtype of:aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic planta 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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Unit 6: Vocabulary from Readings 2
This list covers Damon and Pythias, "Uncle Septimus’s Beard," "The Crane Maiden," "Aunty Misery," "Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China," and "Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story."