epiphyte

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One is purely an epiphyte, growing attached to a tree like many of the orchids.

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  1. noun A plant, such as a tropical orchid or a staghorn fern, that grows on another plant upon which it depends for mechanical support but not for nutrients. Also called aerophyte, air plant.

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  • These are not epiphyte roots these are roots that emerge from the trunk and branch of the host trees themselves. —  Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy
  • Called 83 In Honour Of Another Of That Name grasped a travelling epiphyte, scaring off the water droplets adhered to its leaves. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
  • His legs wrapped around an epiphyte, he reached out and took hold of the Far-Beyonder's wrist as her momentum carried her towards him. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
  • This poses special problems for epiphyte seeds, which must move against gravity to arrive at very specific and patchy germination sites. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Throughout the Amazon basin, this strategy is represented by some 15 epiphyte species that grow exclusively or principally in arboreal carton nests built by ants, forming abundant hanging gardens known as ant-gardens —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἐπί, upon, + φυτόν, a plant.
 

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/ˈɛpɪfaɪt/
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