Definition of epiphytic plant Epiphytic plant
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What does epiphytic plant mean?
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| epiphytic plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it | ||
| air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte | ||
| plant life, flora, plant (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | ||
| clusia insignis, waxflower epiphytic clusia of British Guiana | ||
| black moss, long moss, spanish moss, tillandsia usneoides, old man's beard 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 | ||
| aeschynanthus a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex | ||
| hemiepiphyte, semiepiphyte a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life | ||
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