epiphyte
Noun
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Plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain;
Usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it (synset 113143744)subtypes:- clusia insignis, waxflower - epiphytic clusia of British Guiana
- black 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 America
- aeschynanthus - a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex
- hemiepiphyte, semiepiphyte - a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life
- strangler, 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
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