English noun: Tillandsia usneoides | |||
1. | Tillandsia usneoides (plant) 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 | ||
Synonyms | black moss, long moss, old man's beard, Spanish moss | ||
Broader (hypernym) | aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant | ||
Member meronym | genus Tillandsia, Tillandsia | ||