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, ↑long moss
• Hypernyms: ↑air plant, ↑epiphyte, ↑aerophyte, ↑epiphytic plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Tillandsia, ↑genus Tillandsia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.