Spanish moss
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A gray epiphyte that hangs down from trees, Tillandsia usneoides, native to the southeastern US and throughout humid tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas. uncountable, usually
- 2 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 wordnet