Black moss Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    old man's beard; Spanish moss; long moss; Tillandsia usneoides.

WordNet

Definitions
  1. (Bot.), the common so-called long moss of the southern United States. See Tillandsia.
Definitions
  1. . See under Black, and Tillandsia.

Webster 1913