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n. A plant, such as a tropical orchid or a staghorn fern, that grows on another plant upon which it depends for mechanical support but not for nutrients. Also called aerophyte, air plant.

n. A plant that grows on another, using it as a physical support but neither obtaining nutrients from it nor causing it any damage if also offering no benefit; an air plant.

n. An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See air plant.

n. A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.

n. In botany, a plant which grows upon another plant, but which does not, like a parasite, derive its nourishment from it.

n. In zoology, a fungus parasitic on the skin and its appendages or on mucous surfaces of man and other animals, causing disease; a dermatophyte.

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n. plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it

"'epiphyte' (_i. e._, a plant growing on other plants,) "forms dense festoons among the branches of the trees, vegetating among the black mould that collects upon the bark of trees in hot damp countries; other species are inhabitants of deep and gloomy forests, and others form, with their spring leaves, an impenetrable herbage in the Pampas of Brazil.""

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