单词 | epiphytous |
释义 | epiphytousadj. Botany. = epiphytal adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [adjective] > relating to epiphyte epiphytous1816 epiphytic1830 epiphytal1854 epiphytical1861 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1843) I. 385 Regarded by some of our first botanists as an epiphytous fungus, but proved on dissection to be a true gall. 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. ii. 50 The air-roots of epiphytous plants..which sit on the stronger boughs of the trees above. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1816 |
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