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Epiphyte   Listen
noun
Epiphyte  n.  
1.
(Bot.) An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.
2.
(Med.) A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.





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"Epiphyte" Quotes from Famous Books



... Secondary growth in thickness is effected by the tangential division of superficial cells. The most fundamental external differentiation is into holdfast and shoot. In Laminariaceae secondary cylindrical props arise obliquely from the base of the thallus. In epiphytic forms the rhizoids of the epiphyte often penetrate into the tissue of the host, and certain epiphytes are not known to occur excepting in connexion with a certain host; but to what extent, if any, there is a partial parasitism in these cases has not been ascertained. In filamentous ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


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