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amphiphyte

amphiphyte noun: any plant that grows on the edges of water or wetlands, and is sometimes submerged.

Noun

amphiphyte (plural amphiphytes)

  1. Any plant that grows on the edges of water or wetlands, and is sometimes submerged.

amphiphyte meaning in Tamil

amphiphyte in Tamil

நீர்ப்படுகைத் தாவரங்கள்

Forms of amphiphyte

pluralamphiphytes

Origin of amphiphyte

From amphi- (“near”) + -phyte (“flower”).

Questions about amphiphyte

What does amphiphyte mean?
Amphiphyte means any plant that grows on the edges of water or wetlands, and is sometimes submerged.
What is amphiphyte in Tamil?
Amphiphyte in Tamil is நீர்ப்படுகைத் தாவரங்கள். See Amphiphyte meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is amphiphyte?
Amphiphyte is a noun.
What is the plural of amphiphyte?
The plural of amphiphyte is amphiphytes.

Words near amphiphyte in the dictionary

  1. amphiphloic
  2. amphiphobic
  3. amphiphylic
  4. amphiphysin
  5. amphiphysins
  6. amphiphyte
  7. amphiphytes
  8. amphiphytic
  9. amphipithecid
  10. amphipithecids
  11. amphiplasties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amphiphyte (page history and authors); amphiphyte (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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