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epiphytic plant ThesaurusNoun | 1. | epiphytic plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on itaerophyte, air plant, epiphyteplant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotionClusia insignis, waxflower - epiphytic clusia of British Guianablack moss, long moss, old man's beard, Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides - dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South Americaaeschynanthus - a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apexhemiepiphyte, semiepiphyte - a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its lifestrangler, strangler tree - an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree | EncyclopediaSeeepiphyteepiphytic plant
Synonyms for epiphytic plantnoun plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rainSynonyms- aerophyte
- air plant
- epiphyte
Related Words- plant life
- flora
- plant
- Clusia insignis
- waxflower
- black moss
- long moss
- old man's beard
- Spanish moss
- Tillandsia usneoides
- aeschynanthus
- hemiepiphyte
- semiepiphyte
- strangler
- strangler tree
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