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Definition of Geophyte
1. Noun. A perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms.
Definition of Geophyte
1. Noun. (botany) A perennial plant, for example the potato or daffodil, which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as a bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Geophyte
1. a plant having underground buds [n -S]
Medical Definition of Geophyte
1. A plant whose perennating buds are buried in the soil. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geophyte
Literary usage of Geophyte
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"See geophyte. geophyte, a perennial plant of which the principal organs lie under
the ground. For them winter is a rest period but in summer they put forth ..."
2. Fire Effects Information System: User's Guide by William C. Fischer, Melanie Miller, Cameron M. Johnston, Jane K. Smith (1998)
"... and extensive, more than 80 feet (24 m) long. The Raunkiaer classes pertinent
to FEIS plant species are listed below. Chamaephyte Epiphyte geophyte ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"(iii) The probability that the union of cotyledons is of service to the geophyte
by reducing the expenditure of material in assimilating surfaces during the ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1915)
"... H Hemicryptophyte, G geophyte, Th Therophyte. When each plant has got its
letter, the types are counted up and their percentage is calculated. ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Diplazium esculentum, on the other hand, is a tree-like geophyte which in
cultivation apparently seldom produces sporangia, but in its natural habitat does ..."
6. Indigenous Knowledge and Its Uses in SA by Hans Normann (1996)
"The former is a bulbous geophyte and the latter an annual herb with a well-developed
taproot which is the plant sought after by herbalists (Naidoo, 1994). ..."
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