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LONG MOSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long moss mean? 

LONG MOSS (noun)
  The noun LONG MOSS has 1 sense:

1. 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 Americaplay

  Familiarity information: LONG MOSS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LONG MOSS (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black moss; long moss; old man's beard; Spanish moss; Tillandsia usneoides

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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