The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromφυτόν“plant”
- English today-phyte
From Ancient Greek φυτόν (phutón, “plant”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφυτόν all →
phytoplanktonphytonphytotelma
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
-phyte
Today it means: A member of a taxonomic group of plants or algae, chiefly one whose taxonomic name ends (or ended) in -phyta. Full definition →
Ancient Greek φυτόν