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GEOPHYTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does geophyte mean?
• GEOPHYTE (noun)
The noun GEOPHYTE has 1 sense:
1. a perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms
Familiarity information: GEOPHYTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("geophyte" is a kind of...):
tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)
Derivation:
geophytic (of or relating to geophytes)
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