English > epiphytic plant: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it. |
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| Synonyms | air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte |
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| Narrower | Spanish moss, old man's beard, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides | dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree ... / tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots |
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| 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 |
| strangler, strangler tree | An epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree |
| waxflower, Clusia insignis | epiphytic clusia of British Guiana |
| Broader | plant, flora, plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
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| Spanish | aerophyte, epifito, planta epifita |
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| Catalan | aerophyte, epífit, planta epífita |
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