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spanish moss

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English

Syllables
span-ish -moss
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A gray epiphyte that hangs down from trees, Tillandsia usneoides, native to the southeastern US and throughout humid tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas.

Uncountable

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Inflected Forms

Spanish mosses (plural)

Synonyms

old man's beard black moss barbe espagnole Spanish beard treebeard long moss tillandsia usneoides

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What does spanish moss mean?
A gray epiphyte that hangs down from trees, Tillandsia usneoides, native to the southeastern US and throughout humid tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas.

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