What Does Epiphytically Meaning?

1 : of, relating to, or being an epiphyte. 2 : living on the surface of plants.

Is epiphytic a word?

noun Botany. a plant that grows above the ground, supported nonparasitically by another plant or object, and deriving its nutrients and water from rain, the air, dust, etc.; air plant; aerophyte.

What is Epiphytism in biology?

a form of mutualism in which one plant lives on the surface of another, as moss on a tree. — epiphyte, n. See also: Plants.

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