Definitions from Wiktionary (epiphyte)
▸ noun: (botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant.
▸ noun: (biology) A fungus that grows on a plant but does not feed upon it saprotrophically (an epiphytic fungus). (The science of detecting and studying any such symbiosis as may be involved in this relationship is still developing.)
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▸ noun: (botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant.
▸ noun: (biology) A fungus that grows on a plant but does not feed upon it saprotrophically (an epiphytic fungus). (The science of detecting and studying any such symbiosis as may be involved in this relationship is still developing.)
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air plant,
aerophyte,
epiphytic plant,
epiphytic,
edaphophyte,
phorophyte,
airplant,
epiphyton,
semiepiphyte,
hemiepiphyte,
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