epiphyte in English

noun

1

a plant that grows on another plant but is not parasitic, such as the numerous ferns, bromeliads, air plants, and orchids growing on tree trunks in tropical rain forests.

Many tropical orchids are epiphytes , growing on the side of trees, and will not do well if their roots stay wet.

noun

air plant, epiphytic plant, aerophyte

Use "epiphyte" in a sentence

1. The result showed the variety in the rhizo - epiphyte and endo - epiphyte of Daphne odora thunb.

2. The measles is caused by a kind of specific epiphyte.

3. Using dilution - plate method , the inhibiting effect of vanillin to the epiphyte was mensurated.

4. Result: All were healed except one inducing by epiphyte infection.

5. Rice blast is a kind of epiphyte disease by Magnaporthe grisea.

6. There are many germs inside vagina, how can we differentiate microzyme , epiphyte, bacteria or infusorians?

7. Epiphyte Any plant growing upon or attached to another plant or object merely for physical support.

8. Epiphyte Any plant growing or attached to another plant or object merely for physical support.

9. From the Cambridge English Corpus Such a spatial association is analogous to epiphyte ant-gardens in which the plants grow principally on Arboreal …

10. The liquid culture of Grifola frondosa is a new approach to develop new health food for epiphyte polysaccharide and has prominent economic value.

11. Bromeliad is a well-known tropical epiphyte plant, growing in the ground and also on other stuff like rainforest trees, logs, rocks, and other plants

12. Definition of Banyan : a large fig tree (Ficus benghalensis) native to India and Pakistan that starts as an epiphyte and has spreading branches which send out aerial roots that grow down to the ground and form secondary trunks around the host tree The Banyan kills the host tree by preventing its trunk from growing.