| CHOMOPHYTE | • chomophyte n. (Botany) Any plant that grows in rock fissures or crevices. • CHOMOPHYTE n. a plant growing on rocky ledges. |
| HALOPHYTES | • halophytes n. Plural of halophyte. • HALOPHYTE n. a plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea. |
| HELIOPHYTE | • heliophyte n. (Botany) Any plant that thrives in bright sunlight. • HELIOPHYTE n. a plant flourishing in sunlight. |
| HELOPHYTES | • helophytes n. Plural of helophyte. • HELOPHYTE n. any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface. |
| HOLOPHYTES | • holophytes n. Plural of holophyte. • HOLOPHYTE n. a plant maintained entirely by its own organs. |
| HOMEOPATHY | • homeopathy n. A system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce… • HOMEOPATHY n. the use of minute quantities of medications that in large amounts, produce symptoms like those of the disease being treated, also HOMOEOPATHY. |
| HYDROPHYTE | • hydrophyte n. (Botany) A plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water, usually excluding seaweed. • HYDROPHYTE n. an aquatic plant; an alga. |
| HYETOGRAPH | • hyetograph n. A graphical representation of rainfall over time. • HYETOGRAPH n. an instrument for recording rainfall. |
| HYGROPHYTE | • hygrophyte n. (Biology) Any plant that thrives on very wet but not submerged ground. • HYGROPHYTE n. a plant adapted to a plentiful water-supply. |
| HYLOPHYTES | • HYLOPHYTE n. a woodland plant. |
| HYPAETHRON | • hypaethron n. An open court. • HYPAETHRON n. an open court. |
| HYPOTHECAE | • hypothecae n. Plural of hypotheca. • HYPOTHECA n. the inner and younger layer of the cell wall of a diatom. |
| HYPOTHESES | • hypotheses n. Plural of hypothesis. • HYPOTHESIS n. a supposition, an assumption. |
| HYPOTHESIS | • hypothesis n. (Sciences) Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific… • hypothesis n. (General) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation. • hypothesis n. (Grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement. |
| HYPOTHETIC | • hypothetic adj. Based on hypothesis or theory; hypothetical. • hypothetic adj. Existing as an abstract concept rather than a concrete reality. • HYPOTHETIC adj. of the nature of a hypothesis, also HYPOTHETICAL. |
| LITHOPHYSE | • lithophyse n. (Mineralogy) A spherulitic cavity, often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks… • LITHOPHYSE n. a bladderlike spherulite, also LITHOPHYSA. |
| LITHOPHYTE | • lithophyte n. (Biology) Any plant that lives grows on rocks, obtaining nourishment from rain and the atmosphere. • lithophyte n. (Zoology) Any organism, such as a coral, resembling a stony plant. • LITHOPHYTE n. a plant that grows on rock. |
| ORTHOPHYRE | • orthophyre n. (Geology) a porphyritic rock that contains phenocrysts of orthoclase embedded in feldspar. • ORTHOPHYRE n. a fine-grained syenitic rock with orthoclase crystals. |
| THEROPHYTE | • therophyte n. (Biology) Any plant which survives unfavourable seasons in the form of seeds only. • THEROPHYTE n. a plant that overwinters as a seed. |