cormophyte
/ˈkɔːməʊfaɪt/
cormophyte noun: any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte.
Noun
cormophyte (plural cormophytes)
- Any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte
- Very careful developmental or anatomical investigation may be required to show that the variously-constructed organs of many cormophytes are derived by the metamorphosis of the three primary organs, root, stem, and leaf, and to ascertain with which of these any particular structure is really...1940, Edgar Nelson Transeau, Homer Cleveland Sampson, Lewis Hanford Tiffany, Textbook of botany, Part 1, page 156
- Botany used to recognize, if vaguely, these two kinds of plant, namely the thallophyte which grew and absorbed superficially, and the cormophyte, which is the root-shoot system with internal accommodation.2002, E. J. H. Corner, The Life of Plants, page 108
Forms of cormophyte
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Origin of cormophyte
From Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk stripped of its boughs”) -phyte (“plant”); see also corm (“swollen underground stem”), Latin cormus. By surface analysis, cormo- + -phyte.
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Questions about cormophyte
- What does cormophyte mean?
- Cormophyte means any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte.
- What part of speech is cormophyte?
- Cormophyte is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cormophyte?
- Cormophyte is pronounced /ˈkɔːməʊfaɪt/.
- What is the plural of cormophyte?
- The plural of cormophyte is cormophytes.
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