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hygrophytes

hygrophytes is the plural of hygrophyte.

Meaning of hygrophyte

Noun

hygrophyte (plural hygrophytes)

  1. Any plant that thrives on very wet but not submerged ground.
    • Between xerophytes and hygrophytes we find a great many intermediate forms (Mesophytes), comprising, in fact, the majority of British plants, which grow in meadows, pastures, cultivated fields, and in woods and plantations of deciduous trees (Beech, Oak, Birch, etc.).1907, Francis Cavers, Plant Biology: A Text-book of Elementary Botany Arranged for Modern Methods of Teaching

Questions about hygrophytes

What is hygrophytes the plural of?
Hygrophytes is the plural of hygrophyte.

Words near hygrophytes in the dictionary

  1. hygrophobic
  2. hygrophoraceous
  3. hygrophoroid
  4. hygrophthalmic
  5. hygrophyte
  6. hygrophytes
  7. hygrophytic
  8. hygroplasm
  9. hygroreception
  10. hygroreceptive
  11. hygroreceptor

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