Definition of "epiphytic" [ep•i•phyt•ic]

• Of or pertaining to an epiphyte. (adjective)

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• "She loves ascending into the canopies of giant Sitka Spruces, Western Hemlocks and Western Red Cedars to collect insects and epiphytic lichens."
• "Ms. Coelho, who not only can wax poetic about the female epiphytic cycad in the Botanical Garden's New World Lowland Rainforest exhibit or the incendiary Capsicum chinense peppers in the Edible Garden area but who also spars gamely with chipmunks on her own property, in Putnam Valley couldn't have been more generous with her time or patient with my level of horticultural idiocy."
• "We have found some of the best developed epiphytic bromeliads with large showy flowers there, and at least two species of mistletoes."