long moss

What does long moss mean?

long 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 long moss?

Close synonyms include Spanish moss, old man's beard, black 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 long moss a common word?

long moss is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 long moss come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.