old man's beard English

Meaning old man's beard meaning

What does old man's beard mean?

old man's beard

— noun (= 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

— noun (= virgin''s bower) common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers

— noun (= traveler''s joy) vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn