Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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old man's beard | Yes | No | No | No |
genus Tillandsia | Yes | No | No | No |
old man's beard (noun) | genus Tillandsia (noun) |
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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 | large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses |
common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers | |
vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn |