Usually means: Plants growing on other plants.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. epiphytes: Merriam-Webster
  2. epiphytes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. epiphytes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Epiphytes, epiphytes: Wordnik
  5. epiphytes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. epiphytes: Wiktionary
  7. epiphytes: Dictionary.com
  8. Epiphytes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. epiphytes: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Epiphytes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epiphytes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epiphytes: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (epiphyte)

noun:  (botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant.
noun:  (biology) A fungus that grows on a plant but does not feed upon it saprotrophically (an epiphytic fungus). (The science of detecting and studying any such symbiosis as may be involved in this relationship is still developing.)
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