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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere;
[syn: lithophyte, lithophytic plant]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lithophyte \Lith"o*phyte\, n. [Litho- + Gr. ? plant: cf. F. lithophyte.] (Zool.) 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 are animals. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lithophyte n 1: plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere [syn: lithophyte, lithophytic plant]