Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing upon a leaf, as applied to fungi; epigenous: often limited to the upper surface, in distinction from
hypogenous . Alsoepiphylline .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Growing upon, or inserted into, the leaf.
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- adjective botany Growing upon, or inserted into, the
leaf .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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The history and description of a minute epiphyllous Ly - coperdon, growing on the leaves of the Anémone ne - morosa.
Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ... 1797
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