air plant
n.
See epiphyte.
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air plant
n
(Botany) an epiphyte, esp an orchid of the large Old World tropical genus Aerides, grown for its white scented flowers spotted with red, purple, or rose, or a bromeliad, esp of the genus Tillandsia
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air′ plant`
n.
1. an epiphyte.
2. a tropical plant, Kalanchoe pinnata, of the stonecrop family, having pale-green flowers tinged with red and new plants sprouting at the leaf notches.
[1835–45, Amer.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. |  air plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on itClusia 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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