geophilous (English, adj)
expansion: geophilous (not comparable)
Senses:
glosses: Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
tags: not-comparable
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
tags: not-comparable
glosses: growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
tags: not-comparable
glosses: Fruiting underground.
tags: not-comparable
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