cormophytic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to cormophytes; having the character of a cormophyte.
Example Sentences
- "They are more vegetable than animal, if these terms can be applied to the sort of matter composing them, and have a somewhat fungoid structure; though the presence of a chlorophyll-like substance and a very singular nutritive system differentiate them altogether from true cormophytic fungi."
- "Many bryophytes possess several cormophytic structures such as a cuticle, stomata, or conducting tissues; however, they make no use of them."
- "Similar developmental coordination is required for vascular differentiation in the graft union (Wang and Kollmann 1996) and for many other developmental processes (for example, for the development of functional connections between cormophytic parasites and their host plants)."
Etymology
From cormophyte + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more cormophytic (comparative)
most cormophytic (superlative)