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epiphyte |
(n): plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
(n): (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
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"...they had spent what waking hours they could spare from the Juan Fernandez ferns and epiphytes to combing the countryside in search of a nest..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 231