English Explanatory Dictionary

geophilous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
  2. Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
  3. growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
  4. Fruiting underground.

Word forms

geophilous

Etymology

From geo- + -philous.

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