usnea
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of usnea
1590–1600; < New Latin, Medieval Latin < Arabic or Persian ushnah
Example Sentences
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Probably because of the absence of usnea moss, with which it pins up its little basketlike nest with its side entrance.
From Time Magazine Archive
It resembles carbonized horse hair and was called "horse hair usnea" by old Dillenius.
From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by C. G. Lloyd
A common migrant, traveling with other Wood Warblers, but in summer usually restricted to swampy localities where usnea moss flourishes.
From What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season by Frank M. Chapman
The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various
This material, under the name of usnea, was apparently quite popular in prescriptions for various chronic ills, and especially those that we now recognize as prolonged neurotic affections.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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