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LONG MOSS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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:
black moss; long moss; old man's beard; Spanish moss; Tillandsia usneoides
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("long moss" is a kind 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)
Holonyms ("long moss" is a member of...):
genus Tillandsia; Tillandsia (large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses)
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