9-letter words containing phy
- -phyceous — of or belonging to a (specified) class of algae
- -phyllous — having leaves of a specified number or type
- aerophyte — epiphyte.
- aphyllous — (of plants) having no leaves
- apomorphy — (systematics): A derived characteristic of a clade. Any feature novel to a species and its descendants.
- apophyges — Plural form of apophyge.
- apophyses — Plural form of apophyse.
- apophysis — a process, outgrowth, or swelling from part of an animal or plant
- asphyxial — the extreme condition caused by lack of oxygen and excess of carbon dioxide in the blood, produced by interference with respiration or insufficient oxygen in the air; suffocation.
- aulophyte — a free-living plant growing on or in another plant.
- autophyte — an autotrophic plant, such as any green plant
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- cataphyll — a simplified form of plant leaf, such as a scale leaf or cotyledon
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- diaphyses — Plural form of diaphysis.
- diaphysis — the shaft of a long bone
- diphysite — a person who believes that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- ectophyte — a parasitic plant growing on an animal or another plant.
- emphysema — A condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and enlarged, causing breathlessness.
- endophyte — A plant, especially a fungus, that lives inside another plant.
- entophyte — endophyte
- epigraphy — The study and interpretation of ancient inscriptions.
- epiphyses — Plural form of epiphysis.
- epiphysis — The end part of a long bone, initially growing separately from the shaft.
- epiphytes — Plural form of epiphyte.
- epiphytic — Of or pertaining to an epiphyte.
- eriophyid — a type of microscopic mite that causes plant damage
- exophytic — (pathology) In pathology, pertaining to growth of a tumor outward.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geophytes — Plural form of geophyte.
- geophytic — Relating to geophytes.
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- helophyte — any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- homophyly — a resemblance due to common ancestry.
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- hypophyge — apophyge (def 2).
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- metaphyte — a multicellular plant.
- monophyly — (systematics) In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species.
- myatrophy — myoatrophy.
- neophytes — Plural form of neophyte.
- neophytic — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- orography — the branch of physical geography dealing with mountains.
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