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单词 old man's beard
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Definition of old man's beard in English:

old man's beard

noun
mass noun
  • 1A wild clematis that has grey fluffy hairs around the seeds.

    Genus Clematis, family Ranunculaceae: several species, in particular (in Britain) traveller's joy

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ragwort and old man's beard also have to be controlled.
    • Other plants in the ecozone include salal, Oregon grape, arbutus, sword fern, skunk cabbage, salmonberry, devil's club, western bleeding heart, red huckleberry, old man's beard, red elderberry, calypso orchid, and Viola langsdorfii
    • The importance of removing the true nasties - old man's beard, ginger, wandering willy - from the forest floor is easy to understand, at least to anyone who has witnessed the devastation that these plants can do.
  • 2A large lichen that forms shaggy greyish growths on the branches of trees.

    Usnea barbata and related species, order Parmeliales

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The forest canopy is a deep blue-green, tinged with pale-green old man's beard, uniformly towering above the mosses and berry bushes.
 
 

Definition of old man's beard in US English:

old man's beard

noun
  • 1A wild clematis that has gray fluffy hairs around the seeds.

    Genus Clematis, family Ranunculaceae: several species, in particular traveler's joy and virgin's bower

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Other plants in the ecozone include salal, Oregon grape, arbutus, sword fern, skunk cabbage, salmonberry, devil's club, western bleeding heart, red huckleberry, old man's beard, red elderberry, calypso orchid, and Viola langsdorfii
    • The importance of removing the true nasties - old man's beard, ginger, wandering willy - from the forest floor is easy to understand, at least to anyone who has witnessed the devastation that these plants can do.
    • Ragwort and old man's beard also have to be controlled.
  • 2A large lichen that forms shaggy grayish growths on the branches of trees.

    Usnea barbata and related species, order Parmeliales

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The forest canopy is a deep blue-green, tinged with pale-green old man's beard, uniformly towering above the mosses and berry bushes.
 
 
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