epiphyte

Other forms of epiphyte

plural

epiphytes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about epiphyte

What does epiphyte mean?

epiphyte means "plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it".

How many syllables are in epiphyte?

epiphyte has 3 syllables and divides as e-pi-phyte under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for epiphyte?

Close synonyms include air plant, aerophyte, epiphytic plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is epiphyte a common word?

epiphyte is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.