Noun: poophyte
| Singular | poophyte |
| Plural | poophytes |
Sample Sentences
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Passing through the heliophilous poads and poophytes, we arrived at a forewold abounding in driodads and sciophytes, the cyriodoche of the latter being somewhat interfered with by pyrium and ecballium; further on, hylads, hylodads, and hylophytes diversified the scene. [1905, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, Robert Hardwicke, page 335:]
Nouns inflected like poophyte
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek πόα (póa, “grass”) + φυτόν (phutón, “plant”). By surface analysis, poa + -phyte. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
πόα'.