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Definition of Hypogeous
1. a. Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground.
Definition of Hypogeous
1. Adjective. (biology) Living or maturing underground; subterranean ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypogeous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Hypogeous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypogeous
Literary usage of Hypogeous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"(c) hypogeous ORGANS FOR THE ABSORPTION OF WATER. ... Upon trie under side a
hypogeous rhizome clad with rhizoids which have been broken off short. foliose ..."
2. The California Spotted Owl: A Technical Assessment of Its Current Status. by Jared Verner (1994)
"For example, northern flying squirrels feed extensively on hypogeous (underground)
fungi, especially during periods when the ground is not covered by snow. ..."
3. Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild edited by David Pilz, Randy Molina (1998)
"hypogeous fungal production in mature Douglas-fir forest fragments and surrounding
... Ecological studies of hypogeous fungi. ll: Sporocarp phenology in a ..."
4. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"The shrubs of the savannah are not less xerophilous than the trees Their hypogeous
parts are very strongly developed as compared with their epigeous parts, ..."
5. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"She further stated that Mucuna in germination is hypogeous, ... This last statement
is incorrect, as both are hypogeous. There is a pronounced difference, ..."
6. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"hypogeous Shoots.—While most stems attain a more or less erect position, as in
trees and shrubs, there are others which bend over to one side, ..."
7. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1905)
"... horizonal petioles (perhaps under moss or dead leaves, rather than hypogeous)
their sepals very small, strongly ciliate, the auricles prominent, hispid, ..."
8. Conservation and Development of Nontimber Forest Products in the Pacific edited by Bettina Von Hagen, James F. Weigand, Rebecca McLain, Roger Fight (1998)
"The role of small mammals in dispersal is species-dependent; the contribution by
established forest dwellers may be repeated inoculation of hypogeous fungi ..."
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