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Definition of Long moss

1. 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Long Moss

Literary usage of Long moss

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of Southern Literature by John Calvin Metcalf (1909)
"BY THE long moss SPRING From 'Marcus Warland; or, The long moss Spring. ... MARCUS sat beside the long moss. Spring, the morning sunbeams glancing through ..."

2. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... the so-called long moss, which, pendent in long and tangled gray clusters or festoons from the branches of the Live-Oak or Long-leaved Pine, ..."

3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"TILLANDSIA L. LONG Moss Perianth plainly double, 0-parted ; the 3 outer divisions (sepals) membrana- ..."

4. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"Who of the south does not know the long moss as it hangs in great streamers ... That the long moss is so wonderfully abundant is because its peculiar little ..."

5. Kentucky in American Letters by John Wilson Townsend, Dorothy Edwards Townsend (1913)
"BESIDE THE long moss SPRING [From Marcus Warland (1852)] Marcus sat beside the long moss Spring, the morning sunbeams glancing through the broad leaves of ..."

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