• Geophyte

    Origin

    geo- + -phyte

    Full definition of geophyte

    Noun

    geophyte

    (plural geophytes)
    1. (botany) A perennial plant, for example the potato or daffodil, which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as a bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome.

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