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Webster 1913 Edition


Arrhizous

{

Ar-rhi′zal

,

Ar-rhi′zous

, }
Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] not rooted;
priv. + [GREEK] a root.]
(Bot.)
Destitute of a true root, as a parasitical plant.

Definition 2024


arrhizous

arrhizous

English

Adjective

arrhizous (comparative more arrhizous, superlative most arrhizous)

  1. (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.

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