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Webster 1913 Edition

Hysterophyte

Hys-ter′o-phyte

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Noun.

[Gr.

ὕστεροσ

following +

φυτόν

plant.]

(Bot.)

A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter.

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Hysˊter-oph′y-tal

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Adj.