Definitions
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.
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- noun botany A
perennial plant, for example thepotato ordaffodil , which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as abulb ,tuber ,corm orrhizome .
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
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the lower western slopes of the Andes and the eastern slopes of the Coast Range, the typical matorral is open and contains a rich assemblage of endemic herbaceous and geophyte species.
Biological diversity in the Chilean winter rainfall-valdivian forests 2009
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Baboons and molerats are dependent upon geophytes, and molerats are capable of eating toxic geophyte bulbs, such as Boophane spp.,
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2010/09/: RSTB: (ab$) Flowering phenology, fruiting success and progressive deterioration of pollination in an early-flowering geophyte by James D. Thomson
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2010/09/: RSTB: (ab$) Flowering phenology, fruiting success and progressive deterioration of pollination in an early-flowering geophyte by James D. Thomson
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2010/09/: RSTB: (ab$) Flowering phenology, fruiting success and progressive deterioration of pollination in an early-flowering geophyte by James D. Thomson
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2010/09/: RSTB: (ab$) Flowering phenology, fruiting success and progressive deterioration of pollination in an early-flowering geophyte by James D. Thomson
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Ethnographically, geophyte elsewhere (Brooks et al.,
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