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(biology) An aquatic plant that floats near the water surface.
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(rare) Any plant that grows by the wayside or where the natural vegetation has been disrupted.
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Pertaining to, or like, algae.
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Of or relating to the algae, or seaweeds; algal.
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(botany) Any plant that grows on the edges of water or wetlands, and is sometimes submerged.
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Growing on the edges of water or wetlands, and therefore sometimes submerged.
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A type of plant found growing in hollows created by wind in sand dunes, a blow-out plant.
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(botany) A moss or similar plant with cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.
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(ecology, botany) Any native plant growing in disturbed land, such as in an abandoned field
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(rare) Synonym of archaeophytes
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(botany) A plant which was introduced to an area by humans (or arrived naturally, but from an area in which it was present as a human introduction) and became naturalized before 1500 C.E. (but especially in prehistoric times).
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Alternative spelling of archaeophyte [(botany) A plant which was introduced to an area by humans (or arrived naturally, but from an area in which it was present as a human introduction) and became naturalized before 1500 C.E. (but especially in prehistoric times).]
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(ecology) Any plant that grows on the bed of a river or other body of water
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(botany) The study of bryophytes (non-vascular plants including mosses, liverworts and hornworts).
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(botany) Any low perennial plant whose buds overwinter just above soil level
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(botany) Any herbaceous or woody plant whose buds overwinter just above soil level
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Relating to, or composed of coccoliths
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(botany) Any plant that is adapted to growing on cliffs, especially in crevices.
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(biology) Any plant whose buds overwinter either below ground, or under water
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(mycology) Exhibiting dimixis, in which mating is governed by two idiomorphs.
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(biology) In phytogeography, a plant of which the subterranean parts are adapted to mesophytic or even hydrophytic conditions, and the aerial parts to xerophytic conditions.
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(ecology) Any plant that grows completely submerged.
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The benthic fauna, i.e. the collection of sea animals living on the seafloor.
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(botany) epiphytic flora
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(of earthworms) Living in the topsoil and depositing wormcasts on the surface.
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Growing on, or close to, the ground.
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colonized with an epiphyte
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Alternative form of food plant [(chiefly entomology) A plant which is a source of food for a given species.]
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(biology) Any plant that loses all of its above-ground parts during winter.
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(botany) Fruiting and/or flowering at or below ground level; exhibiting geophily.
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(biology) That thrives in soil containing gypsum
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(botany) Any plant (typically found in marshy ground) whose buds overwinter under water.
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(biology) Any epiphyte that spends its whole life cycle without contact with the ground
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(botany) That is pollinated by water
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(botany) A plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water, usually excluding seaweed.
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(biology) Any aquatic therophyte
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(biology) Any plant that thrives on very wet but not submerged ground.
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(biology) An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf.
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Relating to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to the depth zone of the sea in which they grow.
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(biology) Any plant that grows in marshy conditions, or in shallow water
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(biology) Any plant that lives grows on rocks, obtaining nourishment from rain and the atmosphere.
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Relating to the macroflora.
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(biology) Any plant that is large enough to be seen with the naked eye
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Relating to the meiobenthos.
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A fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.
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(biology) Any plant whose tolerance to moisture is intermediate between that of a mesophyte and a hydrophyte
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(botany) Any normal terrestrial plant that grows in environments that have an average supply of water.
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(biology, botany) A very small epiphyte
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(biology) A very small predator
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(biology) Any phanerophyte between about 10 and 80 inches in height
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The organisms that swim at the bottom of a lake or sea; the nektonic benthos.
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(botany) Any plant that tolerates or thrives in a nitrogen-rich soil.
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(biology) an oceanic plant or plant life which exists in oceans
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(botany) Any plant that flourishes in a rainy environment
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Synonym of ombrophilous
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Alternative form of orchidology [The study of orchids.]
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Relating to palynoflora
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(ecology) A form of periphyton found on submerged rocks
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(biology) Any plant, typically living in deserts, that obtains its water from long taproots that reach the water table
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Collectively, the set of all plants.
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(botany) Plants that live floating at the surface of water.
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(botany) arenophilous, sand-loving
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(botany) Any plant which thrives in sandy conditions.
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Any plant that is adapted to live in a savannah
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Lichen, a symbiosis that can survive in extreme desiccation
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(botany) A plant that grows in running water, such as in a stream or river
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Relating to, or causing, the decay of wood.
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Alternative form of sciaphilic [(botany) That thrives in the shade]
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(botany) A plant that can be an epiphyte (live on the surface of the other plant), or live independently.
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(biology) That lives in a siliceous environment
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(biology, rare) Alternative form of sciophyte [(botany) Any plant that tolerates or thrives in a low light level (shade)]
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(obsolete) A plant growing on another, such as the mistletoe; an epiphyte.
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(biology) cave-dwelling
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(botany) A plant which behaves as hydrophyte in the rainy season and a xerophyte in the dry season.
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(biology) Any plant that lives in an environment in which heavy rainfall alternates with periods of drought
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(biology) A reference to organisms that are normally benthic, but, carried up into the water column, became pelagic by chance factors.
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(biology) Any plant that was introduced from another geographic location
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