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geophilous

geophilous adjective: loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.

Adjective

geophilous (not comparable)

  1. Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
  2. Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
  3. growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
  4. Fruiting underground.

geophilous meaning in Tamil

geophilous in Tamil

புவிநாட்டமுள்ள

Origin of geophilous

From geo- + -philous.

Questions about geophilous

What does geophilous mean?
Geophilous means loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
What is geophilous in Tamil?
Geophilous in Tamil is புவிநாட்டமுள்ள. See Geophilous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is geophilous?
Geophilous is an adjective.

Words near geophilous in the dictionary

  1. geophilosophers
  2. geophilosophical
  3. geophilosophically
  4. geophilosophies
  5. geophilosophy
  6. geophilous
  7. geophily
  8. geophone
  9. geophones
  10. geophonic
  11. geophonically

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