GEOPHYTE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("geophyte" is a kind of...):

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

Derivation:

geophytic (of or relating to geophytes)

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