Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or having the nature of an epiphyte.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphyte.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or pertaining to an
epiphyte .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to epiphytes
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Examples
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We have found some of the best developed epiphytic bromeliads with large showy flowers there, and at least two species of mistletoes.
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Vines of the largest size, creepers, aroids, and bromeliads and more than 150 orchid species are part of the epiphytic realm that grows over the giant trees.
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Ms. Coelho, who not only can wax poetic about the female epiphytic cycad in the Botanical Garden's New World Lowland Rainforest exhibit or the incendiary Capsicum chinense peppers in the Edible Garden area but who also spars gamely with chipmunks on her own property, in Putnam Valley couldn't have been more generous with her time or patient with my level of horticultural idiocy.
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He found what might serve-a certain epiphytic orchid that nestled in the crotch formed by the great lower limbs of an emergent.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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Together with epiphytic herbaceous communities (orquedeae, bromeliaceae, cacti, and mosses), and rhodophytes, the mangroves form complex forests responsible for providing a physical buffer against sea swells and winds on the coast, purifying the salt in marine breezes, enriching the coastal profile and producing soil recovery.
Manabí mangroves 2008
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She loves ascending into the canopies of giant Sitka Spruces, Western Hemlocks and Western Red Cedars to collect insects and epiphytic lichens.
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We have found some of the best developed epiphytic bromeliads with large showy flowers there, and at least two species of mistletoes.
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Born's view of the big epiphytic bromeliad several meters down the vine was unobstructed.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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The understory is characterized by extensive moss growth, both on the ground and on trees, as well as by the occurrence of epiphytic orchids such as Asplenium nidus and ferns such as Freycinetia sp.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009
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Many succulents possess CAM, as do semisucculents such as some yuccas, epiphytic (growing on trees or rocks) orchids, and xerophytic (arid-adapted) bromeliads.
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