[AIR- 6.] A plant that grows on a tree or other elevated object, and derives its nourishment from atmospheric moisture, as is the case with many tropical orchids.
1842. Gray, Struct. Bot., iii. § 1 (1880), 35. Epiphytes or Air-Plants have roots which are … unconnected with the ground.
1879. B. Taylor, Stud. Germ. Lit., 64. Like the air-plants of Brazil, their gorgeous blossoms and exquisite fragrance seem to spring from nothing.
