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Dormant vs Phanerophyte - What's the difference?

dormant | phanerophyte |

As an adjective dormant

is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

As a noun phanerophyte is

(biology) any woody plant that carries its dormant buds openly on branches above the ground.

dormant

English

Alternative forms

* dormaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
    • Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
    The bank account was dormant ; there had been no transactions in months.
    This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
  • * Burke
    • It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
  • (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
    • a lion dormant

    Related terms

    * dorm * dormancy * dormition * dormitive * dormitory

    Antonyms

    * active * active, extinct

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    phanerophyte

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) Any woody plant that carries its dormant buds openly on branches above the ground.

    • Derived terms

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