أُشْنَةٌ

[applied in the present day to Moss: and particularly, tree-moss: in Persian أُشْنَهْ: but] Lth says, (TA,) it is a thing that winds itself upon the trees called بَلُّوط and صَنَوْبَر [oak and pine] as though it were pared off from a root (كَأَنَّهُ مَقْشُورٌ مِنْ عِرْقِ); and it is sweet in odour, and white: (K, TA:) Az says, I do not think it to be [genuine] Arabic. (TA.)