Usually means: Plant growing on another plant.
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  1. ectophyte: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. ectophyte: Wiktionary

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  1. ectophyte: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  1. Ectophyte: HYPP Zoology

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▸ noun:  (biology) Any plant that lives as a parasite on the surface of another organism

Similar:
entophyte, phorophyte, exophyte, entomophyte, heterophyte, endophyte, phytoparasite, biophyte, phytophile, hemiepiphyte, more...

Opposite:
endophyte, endosymbiont

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Similar:
entophyte, phorophyte, exophyte, entomophyte, heterophyte, endophyte, phytoparasite, biophyte, phytophile, hemiepiphyte, more...

Opposite:
endophyte, endosymbiont



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