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