arrhizous
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arrhizous (comparative more arrhizous, superlative most arrhizous)
- (botany) Having no root: applied to parasitical plants which have no root, but adhere to other plants by any part of their surface, and derive their nourishment from them; also to mosses and Hepaticœ which are destitute of rhizoids.