Akademik

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

noun [noncount]

: a type of American plant that has long gray strands and that hangs down from the branches of trees

ˌSpanish ˈmoss f2 [Spanish moss] noun uncountable

a tropical American plant that has long thin grey leaves and that grows over trees