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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See epiphyte.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A plant which lives exclusively in air, absorbing all its nourishment from it alone, as some orchids and many Bromeliaceæ; an air-plant. See epiphyte.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An epiphyte

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it

Etymologies

  1. aero- + -phyte (Wiktionary)

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hypernyms (3)

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  1. plant
  1. flora
  1. plant life

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  1. aeschynanthus
  2. long moss
  1. strangler
  2. semiepiphyte
  1. strangler tree
  2. clusia insignis
  1. hemiepiphyte
  2. old man's beard
  1. black moss
  2. waxflower
  1. tillandsia usneoides
  2. Spanish moss

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  1. epiphyte

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