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Detailed Synonyms for Spanish moss in English
Spanish moss:
Spanish moss [the ~] noun
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the Spanish moss
– 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 1the Tillandsia usneoides; the black moss; the long moss; the old man's beard; the Spanish moss– 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 1