पौधे जो हवा और बारिश से नमी और पोषक तत्व प्राप्त करता है; आमतौर पर दूसरे पौधे पर बढ़ता है लेकिन उस पर परजीवी नहीं

Noun:

अघिजीव, वह पौधा जो दूसरे पौधे पर लगा हो, एपिफाइट, अधिपादप, उपरिरोही,

epiphyte's Usage Examples:

In epiphytic forms the rhizoids of the epiphyte often penetrate into the tissue of the host, and certain epiphytes are not known to occur excepting in connexion with a certain host; but to what extent, if any, there is a partial parasitism in these cases has not been ascertained.

epiphyte covered trees.

In order that a Fungus may enter a plant, it must be able to overcome not merely the resistance of cell-walls, but that of the living protoplasm; if it cannot do this, it must remain outside as a mere epiphyte, e.g.

As in the case of epiphytic brown seaweeds, the rhizoids of the epiphyte often penetrate the substance of the supporting alga.

epiphyte's Meaning':

plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it

Synonyms:

old man's beard, strangler tree, flora, waxflower, Tillandsia usneoides, black moss, long moss, air plant, semiepiphyte, strangler, aerophyte, Spanish moss, plant, Clusia insignis, hemiepiphyte, plant life, epiphytic plant, aeschynanthus,

Antonyms:

fauna,