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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A parasitic plant growing on the roots of other plants; specifically, a member of a division of plants (the class Rhizantheæ) proposed by Lindley, composed of flowering plants of a fungoid habit, parasitic upon rootstocks and stems.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany One of a proposed
class offlowering plants growning on theroots of other plants and lackinggreen foliage .
Etymologies
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rhizo- + -gen
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