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Definition of Epiphytic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to epiphytes.
Definition of Epiphytic
1. a. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphyte.
Definition of Epiphytic
1. Adjective. of or pertaining to an epiphyte. ¹
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Definition of Epiphytic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epiphytic
Literary usage of Epiphytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Aerial Roots of an Orchid epiphytic upon the bark of the branch of a tree.
itum, it immediately ceases to develop clamp-cells, loses its ligulate shape, ..."
2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Transition from the terrestrial to the epiphytic mode of life. Contrivances for
ensuring dispersal of seeds. Geographical distribution of epiphytes. 3. ..."
3. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"The larva occurs in water held by the leaf-bases of epiphytic bromeliads.
Forested regions of South America ; Trinidad. ..."
4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1907)
"Asplenium can not be regarded as a specialized epiphytic genus as its many
epiphytic species are altogether too diverse in their adaptations, ..."
5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1908)
"... loses its life, finally going into decay and falling away, leaving its one-time
epiphytic guest master of the situation. FlG. 3. A Clusia from Jamaica. ..."
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