air plant

Noun

air plant (plural air plants)

1. Any plant of the species Kalanchoe pinnata (cathedral bells, life plant, miracle leaf, Goethe plant, mother of thousands, never dead, parvu, wonder-of-the-world (Trinidad)).
2. Synonym of epiphyte (a plant living on another plant nonparasitically).
   • Those silent open mouths of tree roots and air plants made Mrs. Doll feel as if they were sucking her into them against her will.1930, Anne Parrish, chapter VII, in Floating Island, Harper & Row, pages 31-32
   • [My] air plants are happy and have grown three times their size because I supplement them with adequate shots of water from a plant mister. / WATER. There are several tricks to watering air plants. Tillandsia do need water; they do not live[…]2019 March 19, Maria Colletti, Living Decor: Plants, Potting and DIY Projects, Cool Springs Press, →ISBN, page 47

   Synonyms:

   epiphyte

   1. especially, any member of any species of genus Tillandsia of bromeliads, an airplant.