Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
- In botany Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
- In phytogeography, growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
- Fruiting underground.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
- adjective botany Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
- adjective growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
- adjective Fruiting underground.
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