rhizogen

English

Etymology

rhizo- +‎ -gen

Noun

rhizogen (plural rhizogens)

1. (botany) One of a proposed class of flowering plants growing on the roots of other plants and lacking green foliage.

Related terms

• rhizogenic
• rhizogenous

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rhizogen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)