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air plant
noun
- an epiphyte.
- Also called life plant. a tropical plant, Kalanchoe pinnata, of the stonecrop family, having pale green flowers tinged with red and new plants sprouting at the leaf notches.
air plant
noun
- an epiphyte, esp an orchid of the large Old World tropical genus Aerides, grown for its white scented flowers spotted with red, purple, or rose, or a bromeliad, esp of the genus Tillandsia
air plant
- See epiphyte
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Origin of air plant1
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How should they guess that alongside her religious fervor a human love grew ethereally like an air plant?
A plant growing attached to another plant, but not parasitic; an air-plant.
In other words, this apparatus will make money as a liquid air plant, and furnish you oxygen as a by-product.
It may begin life as an air plant, fixing its roots in the crotch of another tree, in which a chance seed has lodged.
M. Sommeiller developed the Colladon idea and constructed the compressed air plant illustrated in Fig. 2.
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