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单词 Spanish moss
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Definition of Spanish moss in English:

Spanish moss

noun
mass noun
  • 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
    • Orchids grow from a wall cloaked with Spanish moss.
    • 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.
    • Unlike Spanish moss, mistletoe is a parasite that takes its food from the host tree.
    • The island was covered with large oak trees draped in Spanish moss.
    • We kept brushing into low hanging Spanish moss and cypress limbs, and were having to duck and weave our way along.
    • Now if we lived somewhere, say in Louisiana, the driveway would be surrounded by weeping willows and Spanish moss.
    • Daniel Murry and Captain Lynt ducked as they rode beneath hanging Spanish moss.
    • Hundred-year-old live oaks, draped with tendrils of Spanish moss, provide a natural canopy here.
    • I tried to stay in the shade, ducking beneath the delicate brown flower heads of the Spanish moss.
 
 

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.
 
 
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