a. [f. as prec. + -IC.]

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  1.  Bot. = EPIPHYTAL.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 264. Of the epiphytic class, one only is found so far north as South Carolina.

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1874.  Coues, Birds N. W., 197. The nest was hung in a bunch of the Arceuthobium Oxycedri, an abundant epiphytic plant.

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1879.  A. R. Wallace, Australasia, xi. 222. Bamboos and epiphytic orchids are, however, rare.

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  2.  Path. Of disease: Caused by epiphytes or vegetable parasites.

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1869.  E. A. Parkes, Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3), 63. Scabies, and the epiphytic affections especially.

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