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geophyte Bot.|ˈdʒiːəʊfaɪt|
[ad. G. geophyt (F. W. C. Areschoug 1896, in Acta Univ. Lundensis XXXI. 1), f. geo- + -phyte.]
A plant that produces its perennating buds below the surface of the ground. Hence geoˈphytic a.
1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 110/2 Geophytes, applied by Areschoug to those plants which produce underground buds, without partial development there. 1913Jrnl. Ecol. I. 17 Cryptophytes include plants with their dormant parts subterranean in the case of geophytes with bulbs, rhizomes, tubers on stem and root, and root⁓buds. 1952P. W. Richards Tropical Rain Forest i. 10 While in temperate forests the herbaceous ground flora includes a large proportion of..geophytes, in the rain forest..geophytes are only rarely present. 1956Nature 4 Feb. 214/2 The Pteridophyta..include only such plants as show a geophytic habit or are aquatic annuals. |