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Black moss   /blæk mɔs/   Listen
Black moss

noun
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 America.  Synonyms: long moss, old man's beard, Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides.






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"Black moss" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Blairmore had been full of black moss water. For the greater part of the cold weather it had been frozen and snow-bound. But now, swollen with spring rains, the ditches of the Sunk were lipping to the overflow. Stair took the great iron gelleck and with a blow or two knocked back the clutches of the flood-barriers. ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett

... of the road into a gorge, the great forest trees were found clustering closer, and from underneath their shade a little waterfall trickling out, like a little daughter of the hermitage playing at the feet of hoary sages wrapt in meditation, babbling its way over the black moss-covered rocks, there the jhampan bearers would put down their burden, and take a rest. Why, oh why, had we to leave such spots behind, cried my thirsting heart, why could we not ...
— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore



Words linked to "Black moss" :   genus Tillandsia, epiphytic plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, Tillandsia, air plant



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