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tropophyte

tropophyte noun: any plant that lives in an environment in which heavy rainfall alternates with periods of drought.

Noun

tropophyte (plural tropophytes)

  1. Any plant that lives in an environment in which heavy rainfall alternates with periods of drought

tropophyte meaning in Tamil

tropophyte in Tamil

திருப்பநிலைப் புதல்

Forms of tropophyte

pluraltropophytes

Origin of tropophyte

From German Tropophyt. Surface reading of tropo- (“changeable”) + -phyte (“plant”).

Questions about tropophyte

What does tropophyte mean?
Tropophyte means any plant that lives in an environment in which heavy rainfall alternates with periods of drought.
What is tropophyte in Tamil?
Tropophyte in Tamil is திருப்பநிலைப் புதல். See Tropophyte meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tropophyte?
Tropophyte is a noun.
What is the plural of tropophyte?
The plural of tropophyte is tropophytes.

Words near tropophyte in the dictionary

  1. tropopause
  2. tropopauses
  3. tropophil
  4. tropophilous
  5. tropophobia
  6. tropophyte
  7. tropophytes
  8. tropopsamment
  9. tropopsamments
  10. troposcatter
  11. troposmia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tropophyte (page history and authors); tropophyte (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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