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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A perennial plant, such as a crocus or tulip, that resprouts by means of buds on underground bulbs, tubers, or corms.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A plant which produces underground buds that do not develop there.
  • noun A terrestrial plant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a perennial plant propagated by overwintering buds on underground bulbs or tubers or corms.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany A perennial plant, for example the potato or daffodil, which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as a bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms

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geo- + -phyte

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