Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Botany A plant that grows on rock and derives its nourishment chiefly from the atmosphere.
- n. Zoology An organism, such as coral, that has a stony structure.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any one of the polyps whose substance is stony or hard, as corals and sea-fans. The older naturalists classed them with plants, whence the name.
- n. In phytogeography, any plant which grows upon the surface of rocks or stones, aerial or submerged, with or without the presence of humus: sometimes opposed to chasmophyte (which see).
Wiktionary
- n. biology Any plant that lives grows on rocks, obtaining nourishment from rain and the atmosphere.
- n. zoology Any organism, such as a coral, resembling a stony plant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere
Etymologies
- lith- + -phyte (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At the foot of the Castillo de in Punta, near the Havannah, on shelves of cavernous rocks, * covered with verdant sea-weeds and living polypi, we find enormous masses of madrepores and other lithophyte corals set in the texture of those shelves.”
“Do they prove a submarine communication between the limestone of the coast with the limestone serving as the basis of lithophyte polypi, and is the fresh water of Cuba raised up by hydrostatic pressure across the coral rocks of Cayos, as it is in the bay of Xagua, where, in the middle of the sea, it forms springs frequented by the lamantins?”
“Castillo de in Punta, near the Havannah, on shelves of cavernous rocks, * covered with verdant sea-weeds and living polypi, we find enormous masses of madrepores and other lithophyte corals set in the texture of those shelves.”
“We detached some blocks containing oysters eight inches in diameter, pectens, venuses, and lithophyte polypi.”
“Do they prove a submarine communication between the limestone of the coast with the limestone serving as the basis of lithophyte polypi, and is the fresh water of”
“Orchids can be grouped into three basic types - terrestrial, epiphyte and lithophyte.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lithophyte’.
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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lithophilia
Words made using "lith/o" where it means rock or stone, not including those formed in the body.
Yoinked from the list found here.xenolith, uranolith, trilith, stromatolith, spongolith, regolith, psammolithic, protolith, prepalaeolith, polylith, phytolith, photolith and 60 more...
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