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Plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere
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lithophyte
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n. plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere [syn: lithophytic plant ]
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Lithophytes are plants that grow in or on rocks . Those that grow on rocks are also known as epipetric or epilithic plants. Lithophytes feed off nutrients from rain water and nearby decaying plants, including their own dead tissue. Chasmophytes grow in ...
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n. 1 (context biology English) Any plant that lives grows on rocks, obtaining nourishment from rain and the atmosphere. 2 (context zoology English) Any organism, such as a coral, resembling a stony plant.
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Lithophyte \Lith"o*phyte\, n. [Litho- + Gr. ? plant: cf. F. lithophyte.] (Zo["o]l.) A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines ...