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Definition of Lithophytes
1. lithophyte [n] - See also: lithophyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lithophytes
Literary usage of Lithophytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Transmission of the food-gases in land and water planta and in lithophytes.—Significance
of aqueous tissue in the conduction of food-gases. ..."
2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Gr. lithophytes, sand-plants, mud-plants. Epiphytes. Photic region : emerging belt
... The plants composing the marine benthos arc very largely lithophytes. ..."
3. Essay on the Theory of the Earth by Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson (1827)
"In the torrid zone, where lithophytes of many species abound, and are propagated
with great rapidity, their strong trunks are interwoven and accumulated so ..."
4. The Sea and Its Living Wonders by Georg Hartwig (1892)
"Tropical lithophytes.— History of the Coral Islands — Darwin's Theory of their
Formation — The progress of their Growth above the level of the Sea. ..."
5. A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, John Wright (1831)
"LiTHopHYTES.../}i/fer- ent Species of Corah...Corallines...Sponges, &fc. WE are
now come to the last link in the chain of animated nature, ..."
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