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epipetreous

epipetreous adjective: growing on rocks.

Adjective

epipetreous (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Growing on rocks.

Questions about epipetreous

What does epipetreous mean?
Epipetreous means growing on rocks.
What part of speech is epipetreous?
Epipetreous is an adjective.

Words near epipetreous in the dictionary

  1. epiperineurial
  2. epiperiosteal
  3. epiperipheral
  4. epipetalous
  5. epipetalously
  6. epipetreous
  7. epipetric
  8. epipetrically
  9. Epiph
  10. epiphaenomena
  11. epiphaenomenon

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