"Aerophyte" is a word in ENGLISH
A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its
nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, …
Read the complete definitionA sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.
Read the complete definitionA cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.
Read the complete definitionA chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.
Read the complete definitionA plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte.
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Read the complete definitionAn air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.
Read the complete definitionA house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants …
Read the complete definitionOne of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues …
Read the complete definitionOne of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of …
Read the complete definitionmanau, manaul n k. o. parasitic air plant, with long linear lanceolate leaves radiating from the center: Asplenium nidus.
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Read the complete definitionTo draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the …
Read the complete definitionAn aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It …
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