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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   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.
2. 2
   a perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms wordnet

Etymology

From geo- (“earth”) + -phyte (“plant”).

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