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Old man's beard

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. Synonyms: black moss, long moss, Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides.

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.

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.

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Words linked to "Old man's beard" : epiphytic plant, genus Tillandsia, Tillandsia, aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, clematis