| 单词 | old man's beard |
| 释义 | old man's beard (once / 181836 pages) n WORD FAMILY old man's beard USAGE EXAMPLESThe Shaykh's hand stole on to the little boy's head, and the boy, looking up, stroked the old man's beard. Jebb, Louisa, By Desert Ways to Baghdad(2011) Traveller's Joy Hanging over this great patch of nettles by the hedge there is another weed, the Traveller's Joy, or Old Man's Beard. Cooke, Arthur Owens, Wildflowers of the Farm(2010) Then the youth took up an axe, and, splitting the anvil at one blow, wedged the old man's beard in it. Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett), Grimm's Fairy Stories(2010) 1n common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers Syn|Hyper Clematis virginiana, devil's darning needle, virgin's bower clematis any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers 2n vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn Syn|Hyper Clematis vitalba, traveler's joy, traveller's joy clematis any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers 3n 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 Syn|Hyper Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides, black moss, long moss aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it |
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