| 单词 | death moss |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath moss death moss n. now rare Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > Spanish moss long moss1697 black moss1709 old man's beard1756 Tillandsia1759 Spanish beard1763 Spanish moss1823 longbeard1832 death moss1838 tree-beard1861 Spaniard's beard1880 Florida moss1888 1838 J. Pardoe River & Desart I. 247 On many..venerable pines hung wreaths of the greyish-coloured, silken parasite which is called in ‘wood-craft’ the death-moss. 1875 T. Yelverton Teresina in Amer. I. xiv. 157 The weird ‘death-moss’ festooning the trees caught the tints of the rainbow, and became resplendent with bright scarlet, green, and purple. 1913 J. McElroy Andersonville I. xv. 103 Their branches are hung with heavy festoons of the gloomy Spanish moss, or ‘death moss’, as it is more frequently called, because where it grows rankest the malaria is deadliest. < as lemmas |
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