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(botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant.

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epiphyte

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epiphyte

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(botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant.

Japanese Meaning

着生植物：他の植物の上で成長し、物理的な支持を受けるが、他の植物から栄養を取得せず、害を与えず、利益ももたらさない植物。

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林冠の高いところで、着生植物は樹皮に寄りかかりながら葉を広げ、宿主から栄養を得ることなく日光や雨水を受け止めていた。

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(botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant.

It has been suggested to me that these fine plants will not prove cultivable, because they are epiphytes. […] The probability however is, that they do not require to be treated as epiphytes, and that, like orchids, they will grow better if committed judiciously to the earth.

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(biology) 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.

epiphytes

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