Air" plant` (#). Bot.

A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte.

⇒ 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, are epiphytes.

 

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