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,

epiphytes's Usage Examples:

Thus there are a few 3 Ferns which climb, others are .8 water plants, while many, especially those which live as epiphytes, are more or less xerophytic. Some of the epiphytic forms (Polypodium quercifolium, Platycerium) have strongly dimorphic leaves, the sterile leaves serving in some cases to catch falling debris, and thus to provide the plant with soil.

pendulous epiphytes occur in the latter genus.

The greater number of them are epiphytes or plants that grow on others without absorbing nourishment from them, and heat and moisture afford all or nearly all the nourishment they require.

This struggle for existence has completely changed the habits of some plants, turning the palm and the cactus into climbers, and even some normal species into epiphytes.

The vesicles of Fucaceae and Laminariaceae prevent the sinking of the bulkier forms. But why certain Fucaceae favour certain zones in the littoral region, why certain epiphytes are confined to certain hosts, why Red and Brown Algae are not better represented in fresh water or Green Algae in salt, - these are problems to which it is difficult to find a ready answer.

A bed of Zostera near the level of low water is, however, on the British coast a favourite collecting ground for the smaller red and brown epiphytes.

An epiphytic fungus is not necessarily a parasite, however, as many saprophytes (moulds, 'c.) germinate and develop a loose mycelium on living leaves, but only enter and destroy the tissues after the leaf has fallen; in some cases, however, these saprophytic epiphytes can do harm by intercepting light and air from the leaf (Fumago, 'c.), and such cases make it difficult to draw the line between saprophytism and parasitism.

Plants as agents of damage and disease may be divided into those larger forms which as weeds, epiphytes and so forth, do injury by dominating and shading more delicate species, or by gradually exhausting the soil, 'c., and true parasites which actually live on and in the tissues of the plants.

A large number of algae again live as epiphytes or endophytes.

Coelogyninae, 7 genera, mostly epiphytes, and inhabitants of tropical Asia.

epiphytes'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,