spanish moss

What does spanish moss mean?

spanish 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 spanish moss?

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

spanish 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 spanish moss come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.