Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun long_moss

1 sense of long moss

Sense 1
Spanish moss, old man's beard, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides -- (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)
       => air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plant -- (plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it)