English Explanatory Dictionary

arrhizous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having no root: applied to parasitical plants which have no root, but adhere to other plants by any part of their surface, and derive their nourishment from them; also to mosses and Hepaticœ which are destitute of rhizoids.

Word forms

arrhizous more arrhizous most arrhizous

Etymology

From a- + rhiz- + -ous.

Synonyms

arrhizal
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