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archæophyte

archæophyte is the obsolete form of archaeophyte.

Meaning of archaeophyte

Noun

archaeophyte (plural archaeophytes)

  1. A plant which was introduced to an area by humans (or arrived naturally, but from an area in which it was present as a human introduction) and became naturalized before 1500 C.E. (but especially in prehistoric times).
    • [page 126] Archæophytes (Rikli), plants which have occurred constantly with us since pre-historic times, originally, however, growing wild nowhere in the country, field and garden weeds, […] [page 127] Further, the flora of the cultivated areas consists of a very heterogeneous element, e.g., the...1906 April, T[homas] W[illiam] Woodhead, “Classification of Alien Plants according to Origin”, in Thomas Sheppard, Thomas William Woodhead, editors, The Naturalist: A Monthly Illustrated Journal of...
    Antonyms:
    neophyte

Forms of archæophyte

pluralarchæophytes

Origin of archæophyte

From archæo- (obsolete form of archaeo-) + -phyte: see further at archaeophyte.

Questions about archæophyte

What is archæophyte the obsolete form of?
Archæophyte is the obsolete form of archaeophyte.

Words near archæophyte in the dictionary

  1. archæologists
  2. archæologue
  3. archæologues
  4. archæology
  5. archæomagnetism
  6. archæophyte
  7. archæophytes
  8. archæopteryges
  9. archæopteryx
  10. Archæozoic
  11. arci

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archæophyte (page history and authors); archaeophyte (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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