air plant

How should they guess that alongside her religious fervor a human love grew ethereally like an air plant?

A plant growing attached to another plant, but not parasitic; an air-plant.

In other words, this apparatus will make money as a liquid air plant, and furnish you oxygen as a by-product.

It may begin life as an air plant, fixing its roots in the crotch of another tree, in which a chance seed has lodged.

M. Sommeiller developed the Colladon idea and constructed the compressed air plant illustrated in Fig. 2.