epiphyte

n. 附生植物 [医] 附生植物, 体表寄生菌

发音

其它 /ˈɛpɪfɑɪt/

词形变化

epiphytes 复数 epiphytes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit.

    生物 植物学
  2. 2.

    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.)

    生物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

aerophyte air plant

上位词 3

plant flora plantlife

下位词 8

strangler aeschynanthus black moss hemiepiphyte old man's beard semiepiphyte Spanish moss waxflower

相关短语

cistern epiphyte

词源

From Ancient Greek ἐπιφύτον (epiphúton, “one [plant] that grows upon another plant”), from ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + φυτόν (phutón, “plant”), via epi- (“above, over”) + -phyte (“plant”).

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