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noun
A gray epiphyte that hangs down from trees, Tillandsia usneoides, native to the southeastern US and throughout humid tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: old man's beard, black moss, barbe espagnole, Spanish beard, treebeard
Antonyms: none provided
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: old man's beard, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plant
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