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old man's beard vs epiphytic plant

epiphytic plant vs old man's beard

old man's beard and epiphytic plant both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
old man's beard Yes No No No
epiphytic plant Yes No No No
As nouns, epiphytic plant is a hypernym of old man's beard; that is, epiphytic plant is a word with a broader meaning than old man's beard:
  • old man's beard: dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
  • epiphytic plant: plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
Other hypernyms of old man's beard include aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte.
old man's beard (noun) epiphytic plant (noun)
dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn
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