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单词 air plant
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air plant

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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.

Origin of air plant

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45

Words nearby air plant

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Example sentences from the Web for air plant

  • Unless it roots in earth it is not a tree, but an air-plant or a cobweb.

    A Woman of the World|Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • A plant growing attached to another plant, but not parasitic; an air-plant.

    The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States|Asa Gray

British Dictionary definitions for air plant

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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for air plant

air plant

See epiphyte.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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