epiphyte.
A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit.
Meaning & usage
A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit.
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.)
Where this word comes from
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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