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-phyte definition

-phyte (fīt)

  1. a plant growing in a (specified) way or place microphyte, sporophyte, epiphyte
  2. Med. a (specified kind of) growth osteophyte

Etymology: < Gr phyton, a plant, akin to phyein, to grow: see be

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