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Definition of Entophyte
1. n. A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
Definition of Entophyte
1. Noun. (biology) Any plant growing as a parasite within another organism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entophyte
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Entophyte
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Entophyte
Literary usage of Entophyte
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"Diseases caused by the growth of an entophyte. a plant; yt'i/f<ric, generation.
... Of, or belonging to, an entophyte. ..."
2. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the lungs: Including the Principles by Walter Hayle Walshe (1871)
"... walls of tuberculous cavities : the jointed tubes of the entophyte had been
expectorated two days, at least, before death. 1440. ..."
3. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"The Puccinia Fabse, an entophyte on the common bean, has but one spore in its
cylindrical case, and is considered identical with the Uromyces appendiculatus ..."
4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1875)
"That this entophyte occurs in different forms:—1. As the hard, black, particles
which present a cellular, or filamento-cellular structure, which germinate ..."
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