Spanish moss vs aerophyte

aerophyte vs Spanish moss

Spanish moss and aerophyte both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Spanish moss	Yes	No	No	No
aerophyte	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, aerophyte is a hypernym of Spanish moss; that is, aerophyte is a word with a broader meaning than Spanish moss:

Spanish moss: 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
aerophyte: plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it

Other hypernyms of Spanish moss include air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant.

Spanish moss (noun)	aerophyte (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	plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it

Difference between Spanish moss and aerophyte

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