old man's beard

old man's beard

n (Plants) any of various plants having a white feathery appearance, esp traveller's joy and Spanish moss

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	old man's beard - 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 Americablack moss, long moss, Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoidesgenus Tillandsia, Tillandsia - large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant massesaerophyte, 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
	2.	old man's beard - vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumnClematis vitalba, traveler's joy, traveller's joyclematis - any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers
	3.	old man's beard - common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowersClematis virginiana, devil's darning needle, virgin's bowerclematis - any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers