1. (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

• black moss
• long moss
• old man's beard
• spanish moss

1. (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

• aerophyte
• air plant
• epiphyte
• epiphytic plant

1. (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

• genus tillandsia
• tillandsia