beard lichen

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Noun1.beard lichen - greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on treesbeard lichen - greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees
beard moss, Usnea barbata
genus Usnea, Usnea - widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus
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Suma showed us how Grandfather's Beard lichen, which hangs from the trees everywhere the eye can see at Mount Pisgah, feels elastic, like rubber.
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