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macrophyte, n. Bot.|ˈmækrəʊfaɪt|
[ad. G. Makrophyt (coined in A. F. W. Schimper Pflanzen-Geogr. (1898) III. v. 848): see macro-, -phyte.]
A (usu. aquatic) plant visible to the naked eye.
1903W. R. Fisher tr. Schimper's Plant-Geogr. III. v. iii. 811 In contrast with their behaviour in salt-water seas the majority of macrophytes are rooted to the ground in fresh water. 1933Jrnl. Ecol. XXI. 89 In a fast-flowing river macrophytes are not so plentiful, yet it is here that their presence is most valuable, especially because they act..as a shelter and an agent for stabilising the river bed. 1974Environmental Conservation I. 54/1 It seems that, in turbid lake water, macrophytes develop dense canopies of leaves near the surface.
So macroˈphytic a.
1900in B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 151/1.1903 W. R. Fisher tr. Schimper's Plant-Geogr. iii. v. ii. 789 The macrophytic algae are almost exclusively denizens of the photic region, and the phanerogams are exclusively so. 1988Arch. für Hydrobiol. CXI. 362 The emergent-life is highly productive, locking up 62.68{pcnt} of the total macrophytic standing crop of the lake. |