parasitic plant

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   plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it

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Questions about parasitic plant

What does parasitic plant mean?

parasitic plant means "plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it".

Is parasitic plant a common word?

parasitic plant 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.