rhizophore

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  1. In botany, a structure, developed in certain species of the genus Selaginella, which bears the true roots. It has the external appearance of a root, but has no root-cap, and the true roots are produced from its interior when it deliquesces into a homogeneous mucilage.

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  1. from New Latin rhizophorum, neuter of rhizophorus, root-bearing: see rhizophorous.
 

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