All English words - page 4187

The branch of palaeontology concerned with extinct and fossil plants; palaeobotany.

A microorganism which produces disease in plants.

Producing disease in plants.

The study of plant diseases.

Feeding on plants or plant material; specifically belonging to any of several groups called phytophaga.

Designating or relating to a variety of insect distinguished by features associated with its use of a specific host plant as a food source.

(especially of an insect or other invertebrate) feeding on plants.

The branch of medicine concerned with pharmacologically active substances found in plants.

Especially of an insect or other invertebrate: living in association with plants.

A genus of oomycete fungi (order peronosporales) including many plant pathogens, typically causing root, collar, and fruit rots; (also phytophthora) a fungus of this genus, especially phytophthora infestans, the cause of potato blight.

Of or relating to plant physiology.

Plant physiology.

Plankton consisting of microscopic plants.

Of or relating to phytoplankton.

A crocodile-like reptile of the late triassic suborder phytosauria.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the phytosauria.

Of or relating to phytosociology.

An expert in or student of phytosociology.

The branch of science which deals with plant communities, their composition and development, and the relationships between the species within them.

= phytosterol (conceived as a single distinct substance).

Any sterol which is found in plant tissues (at first supposed to represent a single distinct substance analogous to cholesterol).

A person who dissects plants; a plant anatomist.

The dissection of plants; plant anatomy.

Poisonous to plants.

A poisonous substance derived from a plant.