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Definition of Black 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.
Group relationships: Genus Tillandsia, Tillandsia
Generic synonyms: Aerophyte, Air Plant, Epiphyte, Epiphytic Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Moss
Literary usage of Black moss
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1871)
"BY “black moss.” )R many years of my life I lived close to the sea, near an
estuary frequented by ducks of all kinds; during a severe frost, every little ..."
2. The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher: In Search of a Passage to Cathaia and by George Best, Richard Collinson (1867)
"Stone covered with black moss of ages found on one of the embankments (GG) of
... Two stones ; one, quartz, has upon it a spot of black moss of gee. c 15. ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1858)
"Half-imbedded in the black moss at bis feet, there lay a grey deal coffin falling
to j.itm with age, the lid was gone, blown off probably by the wind, ..."
4. The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the by Robert Forsyth (1805)
"The black moss is ori-mi nally of a mahogany colour, but speedily becomes black
upon exposure to the air : the yellowish, ..."
5. Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the by John Ruskin (1879)
"But we are never enough grateful for black moss. ... The black moss which gives
the precious .Velasquez touches, lies, much of it, flat on the rocks ..."
6. Locusts and Wild Honey by John Burroughs (1884)
"We paused at a spring run, and I followed it a few yards down its mountain
stairway, carpeted with black moss, and had my first glimpse of the unknown ..."
7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1871)
"BY “black moss.” )R many years of my life I lived close to the sea, near an
estuary frequented by ducks of all kinds; during a severe frost, every little ..."
8. The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher: In Search of a Passage to Cathaia and by George Best, Richard Collinson (1867)
"Stone covered with black moss of ages found on one of the embankments (GG) of
... Two stones ; one, quartz, has upon it a spot of black moss of gee. c 15. ..."
9. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1858)
"Half-imbedded in the black moss at bis feet, there lay a grey deal coffin falling
to j.itm with age, the lid was gone, blown off probably by the wind, ..."
10. The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the by Robert Forsyth (1805)
"The black moss is ori-mi nally of a mahogany colour, but speedily becomes black
upon exposure to the air : the yellowish, ..."
11. Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the by John Ruskin (1879)
"But we are never enough grateful for black moss. ... The black moss which gives
the precious .Velasquez touches, lies, much of it, flat on the rocks ..."
12. Locusts and Wild Honey by John Burroughs (1884)
"We paused at a spring run, and I followed it a few yards down its mountain
stairway, carpeted with black moss, and had my first glimpse of the unknown ..."
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