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Definition of Lithophyte
1. Noun. Plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere.
Definition of Lithophyte
1. n. A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.
Definition of Lithophyte
1. Noun. (biology) Any plant that lives grows on rocks, obtaining nourishment from rain and the atmosphere. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) Any organism, such as a coral, resembling a stony plant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lithophyte
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lithophyte
1. A plant that grows on the surface of unweathered rock. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lithophyte
Literary usage of Lithophyte
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of a Journey Round the World, During the Years 1841 and 1842 by Sir George Simpson (1847)
"The harbor, which is capable of containing about forty vessels, appears to owe
its existence to the peculiar habits of the lithophyte. ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"... among others, Timor and the Isle of France, have endeavoured to demonstrate,
in a memoir on the growth of lithophyte polypi, considered geologically, ..."
3. History of Geology and Palæontology to the End of the Nineteenth Century by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1901)
"... and wrote as follows regarding the mode of construction :—" The reef is built
up by the lithophyte worms from the ocean-floor until it comes within a ..."
4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... be regarded as a lithophyte in the narrower acceptation of the term. Those that
are rooted in earth in the cracks and crevices of the rock must be ..."
5. History of Geology and Palæontology to the End of the Ninetheenth Century by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1901)
"... and wrote as follows regarding the mode of construction :—" The reef is built
up by the lithophyte worms from the ocean-floor until it comes within a ..."
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