- air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
--1 is a kind of plant, flora, plant life
--1 has particulars:waxflower, Clusia insignis; Spanish moss, old man's beard, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides; aeschynanthus; hemiepiphyte, semiepiphyte; strangler, strangler tree