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/ˈɛpɪfɑɪt/ · noun
(botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit..
It has been suggested to me that these fine plants will not prove cultivable, because they are epiphytes.[…]The probability however is, that they do not require to be treated as epiphytes, and that, like orchids, they will grow better if committed judiciously to the earth.
The nature of the surface of a plant also determines the number and sort of Epiphytes which lodge on it.
Use epiphyte when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Epiphyte means (botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit..
Common synonyms include air plant, epiphytic plant, aerophyte.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It has been suggested to me that these fine plants will not prove cultivable, because they are epiphytes.[…]The probability however is, that they do not require to be treated as epiphytes, and that, like orchids, they will grow better if committed judiciously to the earth.
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