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Word: Geophyte
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century; earliest use found in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. From geo- + -phyte, after German Geophyt
Definition:
A perennial plant which propagates by means of underground buds or has an underground storage organ such as a bulb, corm, or rhizome.
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