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Definition of Air plant
1. Noun. Plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it.
Generic synonyms: Flora, Plant, Plant Life
Specialized synonyms: Clusia Insignis, Waxflower, Black Moss, Long Moss, Old Man's Beard, Spanish Moss, Tillandsia Usneoides, Aeschynanthus, Hemiepiphyte, Semiepiphyte, Strangler, Strangler Tree
Derivative terms: Epiphytic
Definition of Air plant
1. Noun. epiphyte ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Air plant
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Plant
Literary usage of Air plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"A TROPICAL AIR-PLANT. BY CHARLES WRIGHT. A WONDERFUL tree—if tree it can be
called—prows throughout the West India Islands, in South America as far south as ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1897)
"Due allowance should be made for the. fact that the compressed-air plant was not
as economical and perfect an installation of its class as the electric ..."
3. Shield and Compressed Air Tunneling by Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett, Sigvald Johannesson (1922)
"When the low pressure air plant is not running to its full capacity, this may be
used to assist the high pressure air plant. On the Hudson River tunnels of ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... but in the main it may be represented as air — plant-—animal — air — plant —
animal, etc. In the same way combined nitrogen as nitrates is taken from ..."
5. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1868)
"THE FLORIDA air plant. BY THE EDITOR. LAST autumn, through the kindness of Messrs.
Washburn & Co. of Boston, we were favored with two specimens of the ..."
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