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单词 air plant
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Definition of air plant in English:

air plant

noun
  • A tropical American plant that grows on trees as an epiphyte, with long, narrow leaves that absorb water and nutrients from the atmosphere.

    空气草,空气菠萝

    Genus Tillandsia, family Bromeliaceae: several species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The reason you can is that most popular cultivated orchids are epiphytes, or air plants, which most often grow on trees or the surfaces of rocks.
    • Apart from Spanish moss, epiphytic bromeliads include ball moss, Schultes northern needleleaf (with curved leaves) and southern needleleaf, and the rare spreading air plant.
    • But, closely followed by the lovely bird sculptures with attached air plants that I have now twice been given by children known to me in a professional capacity.
    • Obviously, they've never seen the champion, festooned with hundreds of air plants and mistletoe and soaring to 55 feet with a trunk more than 4 feet in diameter.
    • At the summits and on the western side, where high winds and cooler temperatures make growing conditions most severe, is a so-called elfin forest comprising dwarf, gnarly trees draped with epiphytes, or air plants, including orchids.

Definition of air plant in US English:

air plant

nounˈer plantˈɛr plænt
  • A tropical American plant that grows on trees as an epiphyte, with long, narrow leaves that absorb water and nutrients from the atmosphere.

    空气草,空气菠萝

    Genus Tillandsia, family Bromeliaceae: several species, including Spanish moss

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Apart from Spanish moss, epiphytic bromeliads include ball moss, Schultes northern needleleaf (with curved leaves) and southern needleleaf, and the rare spreading air plant.
    • The reason you can is that most popular cultivated orchids are epiphytes, or air plants, which most often grow on trees or the surfaces of rocks.
    • But, closely followed by the lovely bird sculptures with attached air plants that I have now twice been given by children known to me in a professional capacity.
    • Obviously, they've never seen the champion, festooned with hundreds of air plants and mistletoe and soaring to 55 feet with a trunk more than 4 feet in diameter.
    • At the summits and on the western side, where high winds and cooler temperatures make growing conditions most severe, is a so-called elfin forest comprising dwarf, gnarly trees draped with epiphytes, or air plants, including orchids.
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