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Meanings of long moss in English
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.
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Examples for "Spanish moss"
Examples for "Spanish moss"
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Above our heads the Spanish moss hung from the trees in beautiful drapery.
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Festoons of Spanish moss, drooped like a mourning veil from bough to bough.
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And to the delight of Will, the long streamers of Spanish moss hung everywhere.
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I enclose a sprig of Spanish moss from a cypress-tree near the village jail.
5
The pool reflected up into some Spanish moss hanging from the closest oak limbs.
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I was glad that the dark hid the whiteness of the old man's beard from my view.
2
Gidge takes part of the old man's beard and uses it as a pillow to sleep on.
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Then the youth seized the ax, split the anvil with one blow, and struck the old man's beard in with it.
4
Then the youth took up an axe, and, splitting the anvil at one blow, wedged the old man's beard in it.
5
The draftsman has not forgotten this detail: the old man's beard spreads in a snowy avalanche over the apron and comes down to his knees.
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Weeds waved from the crevices, and in places black moss splotched the otherwise bald stones.
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His way lay through a wide tract of black moss, extending for miles on each side and before him.
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On several occasions we found these birds on the highest summits where there was nothing but rocks covered with black moss.
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Sometimes a kind of black moss grows upon them, and tiny bits of white lichen, giving together a curious tortoiseshell look.
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The best soil for it appears to be a pure quartz sand, which in some places rests on black moss or mould.
Usage of long moss in English
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It kills the long moss, but the green mold it does not seem to affect.
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The huge double gate of Thonbec had stood open so long moss had grown on the hinges.
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And taking a strand of the long moss he scraped the greenish gray outside off, leaving a black strand like a horse hair.
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"That is Spanish moss, also called long moss," explained Mr. Brown.