geophilous
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
geophilous (not comparable)
- Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
- (botany) Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
- (phytogeography) growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
- Fruiting underground.
References edit
“geophilous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.