existing or living or growing or operating in the air;
"aerial roots of a philodendron"; "aerial particles"; "small aerial creatures such as butterflies"; "aerial warfare"; "aerial photography"; "aerial cable cars"
characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" Synonym(s):aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal
n
a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer [syn:
forward pass, aerial]