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OLD MAN'S BEARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
Synonyms:
Clematis virginiana; devil's darning needle; old man's beard; virgin's bower
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("old man's beard" is a kind of...):
clematis (any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn
Synonyms:
Clematis vitalba; old man's beard; traveler's joy; traveller's joy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("old man's beard" is a kind of...):
clematis (any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers)
Sense 3
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:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("old man's beard" 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 ("old man's beard" 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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