| 单词 | long moss |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong moss long moss n. Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides (family Bromeliaceae), an epiphytic plant of tropical and subtropical America. 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 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vi. 132 There are only 3 or 4 sorts of Trees all unknown to us. I observed they were much overgrown with long Moss. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 28 From the Nation of Indians, until..North Carolina, you will see no long Moss upon the Trees. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 249/2 The long-moss region commences below 33° lat. The moss hangs in festoons from the trees. 1904 Bot. Gaz. 38 99 Tillandsia usneoides, popularly called ‘long moss’, ‘black moss’, or ‘Spanish moss’, is the most widely distributed representative of the..family Bromeliaceae. 2005 P. Makuck Off-season in Promised Land 22 But first take your time in the grove of grandfather oaks, those widespread limbs dangling long mosses of confederate gray. < as lemmas |
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