Noun: Spanish moss spa-nish mós
- 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
"Spanish moss draped dramatically from the live oak trees";
- old man's beard, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides
Type of: aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant
Part of: genus Tillandsia, Tillandsia
Encyclopedia: Spanish moss