Non-parasitic plant that grows upon another plant but is not nourished by it.
Portuguese
epifitismo Catalan
planta epífita 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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The scream of the air plant had faded to an irritating whine.
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The air plant was radiating waste heat while it had the chance.
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Again the cabin was filled with the howl of the air plant.
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He presently realized it was simply an air plant of unusually luxuriant growth.
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The howl of the air plant made speech impossible.
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Particularly sad will be slow death and loss of veteran ash: age-old coppice stools and pollards harbouring a wealth of epiphytic plants and invertebrates.
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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.