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Geophyte vs Eophyte - What's the difference?

geophyte | eophyte |

As nouns the difference between geophyte and eophyte

is that geophyte is (botany) a perennial plant, for example the potato or daffodil, which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as a bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome while eophyte is (biology) a fossil plant from the silurian age.

geophyte

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A perennial plant, for example the potato or daffodil, which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as a bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome.

    • Derived terms

    * geophytic

    eophyte

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) A fossil plant from the Silurian age