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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Air plant has 1 sense
- air plant(n = noun.plant) aerophyte, epiphyte, epiphytic plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it; is a kind of flora, plant, plant life
has particulars: clusia insignis, waxflower, black moss, long moss, old man's beard, spanish moss, tillandsia usneoides, aeschynanthus, hemiepiphyte, semiepiphyte, strangler, strangler tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
Air plant,
A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aërophyte. [1913 Webster]
" The “Florida moss” (Tillandsia , many tropical orchids, and most mosses and lichens are air plants. Those which are lodged upon trees, but not parasitic on them, such as the Spanish moss Tillandsia usneoides ), are epiphytes ."
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