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Rhizophyte

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rhizophorenoun(botany) The structure bearing the true roots in certain species of Selaginella.
rhizophagynoun(entomology) The eating of roots.
tracheophytenoun(botany): Any plant possessing vascular tissue (xylem and phloem), including ferns, conifers, and flowering plants.
rhizogennoun(obsolete, botany) One of a former proposed class of flowering plants growing on the roots of other plants and lacking green foliage.
rheophytenoun(botany) A plant that grows in running water, such as in a stream or river
hydrohemicryptophytenoun(biology) Any aquatic hemicryptophyte
hydrogeophytenoun(biology) Any aquatic geophyte
cryptophytenoun(biology) Any plant whose buds overwinter either below ground, or under water
rhizomorphnounA rootlike structure, consisting of a dense mass of hyphae, in many fungi
rhizoidnoun(botany) A rootlike structure in fungi and some plants that acts as support and/or aids the absorption of nutrients.
tallophytenounAlternative form of thallophyte. [(botany) Any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta.]
vascular plantnoun(botany) One of the Tracheophyta, any plant possessing vascular tissue (xylem and phloem), including ferns, conifers, and flowering plants.
hydrorhizanoun(zoology) The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects
rhizinenoun(botany, lichenology) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid
raphidophytenoun(biology) Any of a group of unicellular algae of the class Raphidophyceae
hydrotherophytenoun(biology) Any aquatic therophyte
pterophytenoun(botany) Any fern (of division Pteridophyta).
dendrophytenoun(botany) any plant which grows in trees
phorophytenoun(botany) Any plant on which an epiphyte grows
phreatophytenoun(biology) Any plant, typically living in deserts, that obtains its water from long taproots that reach the water table

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