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old man's beard in British Englishnounany of various plants having a white feathery appearance, esp traveller's joy and Spanish moss Examples of 'old man's beard' in a sentenceold man's beard These give it its winter name of old man's beard.When traveller's joy turns to feathery seed, its name changes to old man's beard.Old man's beard has the same name as a climbing hedgerow flower, and looks like the feathery seeds of that flower.These have led to it getting the less inspiring winter name of old man's beard.In autumn, as its lank white clumps of feathery seeds appear, it changes its name to old man's beard.Now it is a mass of trailing, fluffy seeds, turning some hedges quite white, and its other name, old man's beard, is much more appropriate.Many hawthorn hedges have old man's beard sprawling over them, with its long, wandering strings of feathery white seeds.They are covered with the seed heads of old man's beard, which sit in the centre of large, untidy balls of white, feathery fluff.The plant has two names, of which old man's beard - another description of the fluff - is the apposite one in winter. Word lists withold man's beard flowerDefinition of 'old man's beard' |