old man's beard
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various plants having a white feathery appearance, esp traveller's joy and Spanish moss
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| Noun | 1. |  old man's beard - 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 Americagenus Tillandsia, Tillandsia - large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it |
| 2. |  old man's beard - vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumnclematis - any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers | |
| 3. |  old man's beard - common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowersclematis - any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers |
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