The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφανερός“visible”
- English todaymacrophanerophyte
From macro- (“large”) + phanerophyte, from Ancient Greek φανερός (phanerós, “visible”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφανερός all →
phanerozoicmesophanerophytemicrophanerophytenanophanerophytephanero-phanerogamphanerophyte
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.