English Dictionary

epiphyte

名詞

(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.

日本語の意味

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。

High in the canopy, an epiphyte unfurled its leaves to catch sunlight and rain while resting on the tree's bark.

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。

意味（1）

(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.

意味（2）

(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 （ plural ）