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Noun old man's beard has 3 senses
- Spanish moss, old man's beard, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides - dense festoons of greenish-gray hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
--1 is a kind of air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plant
--1 is a member of Tillandsia, genus Tillandsia
- traveler's joy, traveller's joy, old man's beard, Clematis vitalba - vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn
--2 is a kind of clematis
- virgin's bower, old man's beard, devil's darning needle, Clematis virginiana - common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
--3 is a kind of clematis
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