epiphytic plant

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epiphytic plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion 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