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English noun: old man's beard | |||
| 1. | old man's beard (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, Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant | ||
| Member meronym | genus Tillandsia, Tillandsia | ||
| 2. | old man's beard (plant) vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn | ||
| Synonyms | Clematis vitalba, traveler's joy, traveller's joy | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | clematis | ||
| 3. | old man's beard (plant) common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers | ||
| Synonyms | Clematis virginiana, devil's darning needle, virgin's bower | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | clematis | ||
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