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
How To Use Spanish moss In A Sentence
- Spanish moss, hanging from low branches, occasionally scraped the top of the car.
- The colour color comes from tannin that seeps from towering cypress 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.
- Don't confuse this hinahina with the introduced air plant called Spanish moss, often called hinahina or Pele's hair. Starbulletin Headlines
- The color comes from tannin sips seeps from tailoring towering cypress trees draped in Spanish moss.
- Vegetable fibers are composed chiefly of cellulose and may be classed as short fibers, e.g., cotton and kapok; or long fibers, including flax, hemp, Manila hemp, istle, ramie, sisal hemp, and Spanish moss.
- A ride over the hills brought us to a wood of oaks, with their branches fringed with the long grey Spanish moss, and a profusion of epiphytes clinging to their bark, some splendidly in flower, showing the fantastic shapes and brilliant colours one sees in English orchid-houses. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
- Six months ago, Gary hired a goateed designer to "defoliate" the office, trucking out all the ficus trees and spanish moss to make room for curved sheets of fiberglass and, as he called it, "negative space. Overboard
- At dusk, the giant uptown oaks - with the Spanish moss waving in the wind - looked spooky but reassuring.
