Spanish moss

Noun

1.

Spanish moss - dense festoons of greenish-gray hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America Synonyms: black moss, long moss, old man's beard, Tillandsia usneoides

aerophyte, air plant, black moss, epiphyte, epiphytic plant, genus Tillandsia, long moss, old man's beard, Tillandsia, Tillandsia usneoides