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