Meanings
plural poophytes
- A plant that grows best in grass-covered meadows.
Passing through the heliophilous poads and poophytes, we arrived at a forewold abounding in driodads and sciophytes, the cyriodoche of the latter being somewhat interfered with by pyrium and ecballium; further on, hylads, hylodads, and hylophytes diversified the scene.
1905, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, Robert Hardwicke, page 335
Origin
- Ancient Greekπόα“grass”
- Englishpoophyte
Derived from Ancient Greek πόα (póa, “grass”) + φυτόν (phutón, “plant”). By surface analysis, poa + -phyte.
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