English Explanatory Dictionary

tropophyte

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any plant that lives in an environment in which heavy rainfall alternates with periods of drought

Word forms

tropophyte tropophytes

Etymology

From German Tropophyt. Surface reading of tropo- (“changeable”) + -phyte (“plant”).

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