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Hydrophyte vs Trophophyte - What's the difference?

hydrophyte | trophophyte |

In botany terms the difference between hydrophyte and trophophyte

is that hydrophyte is a plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water, usually excluding seaweed while trophophyte is a plant which behaves as hydrophyte in the rainy season and a xerophyte in the dry season.

hydrophyte

English

(Aquatic plant)

Noun

(hydrophytes)
  • (botany) A plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water, usually excluding seaweed.

    • Hyponyms

    * amphiphyte, elodeid, isoetid, helophyte, nymphaeid, pleuston

    trophophyte

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A plant which behaves as hydrophyte in the rainy season and a xerophyte in the dry season.