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أُشْنَةٌ ذ [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.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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