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A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: air plant
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: epibiont, plant, organism
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.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: epibiont, fungus, organism
plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: air plant, aerophyte, epiphytic plant
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plant, flora, plant life
Narrower terms: waxflower, Clusia insignis, Spanish moss, old man's beard, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides, aeschynanthus, hemiepiphyte, semiepiphyte, strangler, strangler tree
From Ancient Greek ἐπιφύτον (epiphúton, “one [plant] that grows upon another plant”), from ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + φυτόν (phutón, “plant”), via epi- (“above, over”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
epífit
— plant that grows on another
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Chinese Mandarin:
氣生植物 /气生植物
(qìshēng zhíwù)
— plant that grows on another
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Danish:
epifyt
— plant that grows on another
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Dutch:
epifyt
— plant that grows on another
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Finnish:
päällyskasvi
— plant that grows on another
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Finnish:
epifyytti
— plant that grows on another
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French:
épiphyte
— plant that grows on another
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German:
Aufsitzerpflanze
— plant that grows on another
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German:
Epiphyt
— plant that grows on another
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Icelandic:
ásæta
— plant that grows on another
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Italian:
epifita
— plant that grows on another
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Māori:
tipu pipiri
— plant that grows on another
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Polish:
epifit
— plant that grows on another
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Portuguese:
epífita
— plant that grows on another
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Portuguese:
epífito
— plant that grows on another
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Spanish:
epífita
— plant that grows on another
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Spanish:
epifita
— plant that grows on another
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Swedish:
epifyt
— plant that grows on another
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Tagalog:
halamang kapitin
— plant that grows on another
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Tagalog:
halamang anginin
— plant that grows on another
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Turkish:
epifit
— plant that grows on another
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Yoruba:
àfòmọ́
— plant that grows on another