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    BLACK MOSS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (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 Americaplay

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("black 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 ("black 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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