Crossword-Solution: EPIPHYTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epiphyte | n. | An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant. |
| Epiphyte | n. | A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “EPIPHYTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Organism that grows on another plant nonparasitically | 1 answer |
| PLANT growing on another | 1 answer |
| VEGETABLE parasite on animal body | 1 answer |
| plant that grows on another plant but is not parasitic on it | 1 answer |
| SPANISH moss | 3 answers |
| Lichen | 10 answers |
| RAINFOREST plant | 10 answers |
| Fungus | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EPIPHYTE (5)
Crystal waters; green shadows under coverture of broad, moist leaves; and night with dewy fanning winds--these chilled but did not refresh me; a region in which there was no sweet and pleasant thing; where even the ita palm and mountain glory and airy epiphyte starring the woodland twilight with pendent blossoms had lost all grace and beauty; where all brilliant colours in earth and heaven were like the unmitigated sun that blinded my sight and burnt my brain.
The same difficulty may have existed in the case of the herbaceous Miadesmia, if, as Miss Benson conjectures, it was an epiphyte.
Carruthers has carefully examined the original specimen in the Botanical Museum, Edinburgh, and thinks it may have been an epiphyte.
They penetrate the earth sometimes to the depth of more than 2 inches; but when the plant grows as an epiphyte, they must creep amidst the mosses, roots, decayed bark, &c., with which the trees of these countries are thickly covered.
Some bladders from a plant, which had lived as an epiphyte in Trinidad, in the West Indies, were next examined, but not so carefully as the others; nor had they been soaked long enough.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2019).