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Meaning of "aphyllous" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD APHYLLOUS

From New Latin aphyllus, from Greek aphullos, from a-1 + phullon leaf.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF APHYLLOUS

əˈfɪləs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APHYLLOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Aphyllous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES APHYLLOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of aphyllous in the English dictionary

The definition of aphyllous in the dictionary is having no leaves.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH APHYLLOUS

acidophilus · ammophilous · anisophyllous · chlorophyllous · dasyphyllous · diphyllous · endophyllous · epiphyllous · gamophyllous · heterophyllous · leptophyllous · mesophyllous · microphyllous · monophyllous · polyphyllous · sclerophyllous · stenophyllous · Theophilus · triphyllous · xiphophyllous

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE APHYLLOUS

aphonous · aphony · aphorise · aphoriser · aphorism · aphorist · aphoristic · aphoristically · aphorize · aphorizer · aphotic · aphrodisia · aphrodisiac · aphrodisiacal · Aphrodite · aphtha · aphthae · aphthous · aphthous fever · aphylly

WORDS THAT END LIKE APHYLLOUS

acarpellous · bullous · callous · cancellous · cerebellous · fibrillous · gallous · libellous · malacophyllous · marvellous · microvillous · morbillous · papillous · quarrellous · ridiculous · tendrillous · thallous · thermophyllous · varicellous · villous · xanthophyllous

Synonyms and antonyms of aphyllous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «aphyllous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF APHYLLOUS

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aphyllous
1,325 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
570 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
510 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
380 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
280 millions of speakers
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безлистный
278 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
270 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
260 millions of speakers
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aphylles
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Aphyllous
190 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
180 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
130 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
85 millions of speakers
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Aphyllous
85 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
80 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
75 millions of speakers
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अशिक्षित
75 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
70 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
65 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
50 millions of speakers
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безлистий
40 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
30 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
15 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
14 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
10 millions of speakers
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aphyllous
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about aphyllous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APHYLLOUS»

Discover the use of aphyllous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to aphyllous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. Containing I. An ...
aphyllous. Scirpus-with. a. 'triangular. Stalk. i. Both these plants-are frequent in all the shallow standing waters of the Island, especially those to the east and west of King/ton : the stalks of both are almost hollow, and partitioned by frequent ...
Patrick Browne, Georg Dionysius Ehret, 1789
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Vegetation Ecology of Socotra
The very rare Calligonum comosum, known only from Abdalkuri (but common in NE Africa, mainland Arabia and extending into Pakistan), is another example of an aphyllous shrub. It is a conspicuous fact that there are no spartinoid ...
Gary Brown, Bruno Mies, 2012
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Ecological Communities and Processes in a Mojave Desert ...
Aphyllous C3 shrubs A significant number of woody desert shrubs and trees are essentially leafless (aphyllous) throughout much or all of the year, and therefore rely heavily or exclusively on stem photosynthesis (Gibson 1983). The most ...
Philip W. Rundel, Arthur C. Gibson, 2005
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Flora of the British West Indian Islands
Leaves hoary-tomentose or villous beneath; branches of the panicle somewhat rigid, reíiexed or spreading: heads exceeding or equalliug the small oblong Бога! leaves, superior often aphyllous.-Ns. Amœn. Bonn. 2. t. 5 : a form with short ...
August Grisebach, 1864
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Lexicon Medicum, Or, Medical Dictionary: Containing an ...
Aphyllous; leafless. Applied to parts of plants: thus a stem is said to be aphyllous when it is altogether void of leaves, as in Canola camped, dodder; Asphodelus fistulam, kc. , Arrivaus PLANTB. Aphyllous plants, or plants without leaves.
Robert Hooper, Klein Grant, 1848
6
Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona
Camp (Aphyllous forms in Pyrola. Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 67: 453-465. 1940) has points, oat recently that several collections, including one by Mearnsat Baker Butte, Coconino County, Arh\. comprise both P. picta and aphyllous or nearly ...
Thomas Henry Kearney, Robert Hibbs Peebles, 1942
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Invasive Plant Ecology i...
... crop <10cm;11–20cm;21–50cm;51–100cm;>100cm h:w>1; h:w = 1; h:w<1 Aphyllous; <1 cm2; 1.1–2 cm2; 2.1–3cm2; 3.1–5cm2; >5cm2 Summer annual, winter annual, biennial, perennial monocarpic, perennial polycarpic <1 yr; 2–5yr; 5–10 ...
Booth, B.D., Murphy, S.D., Swanton, C.J.
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Ecophysiology of Economic Plants in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
Monttea aphylla, an aphyllous shrub of the Argentinian Monte. a transverse sec- tionthrough a photosynthetic young stem exhibiting typical structure for Scrophulariaceae showing epidermis with stomata, assimilative cortical parenchyma, ...
G. E. Wickens, 1998
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New Root Formation in Plants and Cuttings
'Shootless' orchids The orchid genera Microcoelia, Taeniophyllum and Campylocentrum within the tribe Vandeae are characterised by an apparently ' shootless' or 'aphyllous' form. In the main, the plants consist of roots (Fig. 9). Leaves are ...
Michael B. Jackson, 1986
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Orchids of Guatemala and Belize
VANILLA Swartz Stout scandent terrestrial herhs, hranching; stems with leaves or sometimes aphyllous, emitting adventitious roots. Leaves leathery, chartaceous or memhranous. Racerne or spikes lateral or suhterminal, short. Flowers large.
Oakes Ames, Donovan Stewart Correll, 1952
REFERENCE
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