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Significats de epiphyte en anglès
Non-parasitic plant that grows upon another plant but is not nourished by it.
Termes relacionats
portuguès
epifitismo català
planta epífita Plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it.
Ús de epiphyte en anglès
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Burbidge as being a true epiphyte on the stems of Sphagnum.
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One is purely an epiphyte, growing attached to a tree like many of the orchids.
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This southeast Asian plant is an epiphyte, meaning that it grows on another tree for support.
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Here and there a splash of white or crimson marked the blooming of some trailing epiphyte.
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The epiphyte underwent forced growth.
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While he lived what he calls "an epiphyte's life" in London, he began to reconnect with nature.
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As in the case of epiphytic brown seaweeds, the rhizoids of the epiphyte often penetrate the substance of the supporting alga.
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The same difficulty may have existed in the case of the herbaceous Miadesmia, if, as Miss Benson conjectures, it was an epiphyte.
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Innumerable epiphytes covered the limbs, and even grew on the roughened trunks.
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Lichens are often epiphytes and can be found on most trees.
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Canopy plants, or epiphytes, cover almost every inch of the branches up high.
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A large number of algae again live as epiphytes or endophytes.
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The branches above him cupped terrariums of ferns, orchids and epiphytes.
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These splendid orchids and other epiphytes grow singly.
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Climbing ferns and vanilla cling to the trunks, and a thousand epiphytes perch themselves on the branches.
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Epiphytes grew on their bark and put out brilliant crimson blossoms that smelled faintly like ripe peaches.