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Air plant   /ɛr plænt/   Listen
Air plant

noun
1.
Plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it.  Synonyms: aerophyte, epiphyte, epiphytic plant.





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"Air plant" Quotes from Famous Books



... there was no silence there for those who could hear, no solitude for those who could see. And he was riding into it with a young companion who saw and heard and loved and understood it all. Nothing escaped her; no frail air plant trailing from the high water oaks, no school of tiny bass in the shallows where their horses splashed through, no gopher burrow, no foot imprint of the little wild things which haunt the ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers


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