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epipsammic

epipsammic adjective: having a stalk of mucilage that attaches it to a sand grain.

Adjective

epipsammic (not comparable)

  1. Having a stalk of mucilage that attaches it to a sand grain

Origin of epipsammic

From epi- + psammic, literally “on top of sand”.

Questions about epipsammic

What does epipsammic mean?
Epipsammic means having a stalk of mucilage that attaches it to a sand grain.
What part of speech is epipsammic?
Epipsammic is an adjective.

Words near epipsammic in the dictionary

  1. epiprocts
  2. epiprogoitrin
  3. epiproteome
  4. epiproteomes
  5. epiproteomic
  6. epipsammic
  7. epipsammon
  8. epipsocid
  9. epipsocids
  10. epipteric
  11. epipterics

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