Definition of Spanish moss in US English:
Spanish moss
nounˈspaniSH môsˈspænɪʃ mɔs
A tropical American plant which grows as silvery-green festoons on trees, obtaining water and nutrients directly through its surface.
Tillandsia usneoides, family Bromeliaceae. See also air plant
Example sentencesExamples
- Hundred-year-old live oaks, draped with tendrils of Spanish moss, provide a natural canopy here.
- The island was covered with large oak trees draped in Spanish moss.
- Now if we lived somewhere, say in Louisiana, the driveway would be surrounded by weeping willows and Spanish moss.
- We kept brushing into low hanging Spanish moss and cypress limbs, and were having to duck and weave our way along.
- Orchids grow from a wall cloaked with Spanish moss.
- Unlike Spanish moss, mistletoe is a parasite that takes its food from the host tree.
- Its blare sent birds fluttering from the branches of the live oak that overhung the gate, making the Spanish moss sway as if it were alive.
- I tried to stay in the shade, ducking beneath the delicate brown flower heads of the Spanish moss.
- Daniel Murry and Captain Lynt ducked as they rode beneath hanging Spanish moss.