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Air plant  n.  (Bot.) A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte. Note: The "Florida moss" (Tillandsia, many tropical orchids, and most mosses and lichens are air plants. Those which are lodged upon trees, but not parasitic on them, such as the Spanish moss Tillandsia usneoides), are epiphytes.





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... burning coke with a supply of air insufficient for complete combustion, but in order to get the pure gas necessary for the phosgene common air was not used, but instead pure oxygen extracted from it by a liquid air plant. ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson


Words linked to "Air plant" :   strangler, waxflower, black moss, old man's beard, long moss, Clusia insignis, aerophyte, semiepiphyte, Tillandsia usneoides, plant life, hemiepiphyte, Spanish moss, plant, flora, strangler tree, epiphyte, epiphytic plant


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