| Noun | 1. | epiphyte - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on itaeschynanthus - a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex strangler, strangler tree - an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree | |