Usually means: Lichen hanging from tree branches.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word old man's beard:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. old-man's beard: Merriam-Webster
  2. old man's beard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. old-man's-beard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. old man's beard, old man's beard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. old man's beard: Vocabulary.com
  6. old man's beard: Wordnik
  7. old man's beard: Wiktionary
  8. Old man's beard, old-man's-beard, old-man's beard, old-mans-beard, old man's beard, old mans beard: Dictionary.com
  9. Old man's beard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. old man's beard: Rhymezone
  11. old mans beard: FreeDictionary.org
  12. old man's beard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. old-man's-beard, old man's beard: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. old-man's-beard, old man's beard: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old mans beard, old-man's-beard, old man's beard: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old man's beard: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Definitions from Wiktionary (old man's beard)

noun:  (countable) Chionanthus virginicus, a tree.
noun:  Clematis aristata, an Australian climbing plant.
noun:  Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant.
noun:  (uncountable) Tillandsia usneoides, a bromeliad; Spanish moss.
noun:  (uncountable) Usnea, a type of lichen.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, man, -'s, beard.


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