Spanish Moss Synonyms

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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. old man's beard
  2. black moss
  3. long moss
  4. Tillandsia usneoides

Spanish Moss Sentence Examples

  • Much of the river swamp region is covered with cypress trees festooned with Spanish moss.

  • A pile of Spanish moss lies like a coat of curly hair tossed onto the path.

  • Colorful Altamira Orioles and Green Jays inhabit the riverine woodlands, where Spanish Moss forms curtains on the branches of trees.

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