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adj
Having no root: applied to parasitical plants which have no root, but adhere to other plants by any part of their surface, and derive their nourishment from them; also to mosses and Hepaticœ which are destitute of rhizoids.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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History
From a- + rhiz- + -ous.
