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hylophytes

hylophytes is the plural of hylophyte.

Meaning of hylophyte

Noun

hylophyte (plural hylophytes)

  1. A plant that grows best in woods or forests.
    • In the present treatment they have been divided according to biological characteristics into hylophytes or forest plants, poophytes or meadow plants, and aletophytes, ruderal or waste plants.1900, Roscoe Pound, Frederic E. Clements, The Phytogeography of Nebraska, second edition, page 172

Questions about hylophytes

What is hylophytes the plural of?
Hylophytes is the plural of hylophyte.

Words near hylophytes in the dictionary

  1. hylopathists
  2. hylopathy
  3. hylophagous
  4. hylophobia
  5. hylophyte
  6. hylophytes
  7. hylotheism
  8. hylotheist
  9. hylotheistic
  10. hylotheists
  11. hylozoic

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