| 单词 | epiphytic plant |
| 释义 | epiphytic plant (once / 1477414 pages) n WORD FAMILY epiphytic plant: epiphytic plants USAGE EXAMPLESThis flowerpecker was found only in the moss forest above Tenom, where it was seen numerous times feeding among the epiphytic plants. Thompson, Max C., Birds from North Borneo—University...(2010) I want to collect some of those epiphytic plants.” Burton, W., Rob Harlow's Adventures—A Story of...(2010) n plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it Syn|Hypo|Hyper aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte Clusia insignis, waxflower epiphytic clusia of British Guiana Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides, black moss, long moss, old man's bearddense 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 America aeschynanthusa plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex hemiepiphyte, semiepiphytea plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life strangler, strangler treean epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree Clusia major, Clusia rosea, pitch apple, strangler figa common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers Aeschynanthus radicans, lipstick plantepiphyte or creeping on rocks; Malaysian plant having somewhat fleshy leaves and bright red flowers flora, plant, plant life (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
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