Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
  • In botany Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
  • In phytogeography, growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
  • Fruiting underground.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
  • adjective botany Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
  • adjective growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
  • adjective Fruiting underground.

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