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cormophytes

cormophytes is the plural of cormophyte.

Meaning of cormophyte

Noun

cormophyte (plural cormophytes)

  1. (informal) 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

Questions about cormophytes

What is cormophytes the plural of?
Cormophytes is the plural of cormophyte.

Words near cormophytes in the dictionary

  1. cormogeny
  2. cormoid
  3. cormophyllaceous
  4. cormophyly
  5. cormophyte
  6. cormophytes
  7. cormophytic
  8. cormorant
  9. cormorant fishing
  10. cormorants
  11. Cormos

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