black moss

What does black moss mean?

black moss means "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".

What is another word for black moss?

Close synonyms include Spanish moss, old man's beard, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black moss a common word?

black moss is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for black moss come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.