psephyte

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noun

A lake-bottom sediment composed of plant remains.

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Meanings

nounpsephyte (countable and uncountable, plural psephytes)

plural psephytes

  1. countableuncountableA lake-bottom sediment composed of plant remains.

    The barometric effeciency of the aquifer of limestone is greater than that of sand psephyte which is greater than that of igneous rock, and that of igneous rock is greater that that of Quarternary sand psephyte.

    1990, Jia Huazhou, Dong Shouyu, Guo Yixin, “Groundwater Level Analysis and Summary of Influence Factors on Groundwater Level”, in Chen Zhangli, editor, Collected Papers of the Methods of Earthquake Prediction and Estimation of Strong Seismic Risk, Beijing: Seismological Press, →ISBN, page 107

Origin

From pseph- + -phyte.

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Translations

Italian psefite
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APA

psephyte. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psephyte

MLA

“psephyte.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psephyte. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “psephyte,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psephyte.

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