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Definition of Beechdrops
1. Noun. ''Epifagus americana'', a parasitic plant which grows on the roots of beeches. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beechdrops
1. [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beechdrops
Literary usage of Beechdrops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Sometimes the association of specific plants is obligate, as in the case of the
beechdrops, which grows parasitically on the beech, while the beech in turn ..."
2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"... and the pine-sap or false beechdrops. The last three plants named do not
exhibit leaf-green but absorb their food from the humus of the forest floor, ..."
3. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead MacFarlane (1918)
"... from the selection of a special host-root by a sapro- phytic fungus; or of a
particular host tissue—eg, roots of the beech by the beechdrops ..."
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