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Long moss   /lɔŋ mɔs/   Listen
Long 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: black moss, old man's beard, Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides.






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"Long moss" Quotes from Famous Books



... pace. He came down to a walk. As the lonely red of the winter sunset began to stream through the openings of the forest, flushing the snows of the tiny glades and swales, he grew hungry, and began to swallow unsatisfying mouthfuls of the long moss which roughened the tree-trunks. Ere the moon got up he had filled himself with this fodder, and then he lay down in a little thicket ...
— Earth's Enigmas - A Volume of Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts



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



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