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(botany) Having no root: applied to parasitical plants which have no root, but adhere to other plants by any part of their surface, and derive their nourishment from them; also to mosses and Hepaticœ which are destitute of rhizoids..
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Arrhizous means (botany) Having no root: applied to parasitical plants which have no root, but adhere to other plants by any part of their surface, and derive their nourishment from them; also to mosses and Hepaticœ which are destitute of rhizoids..
Common synonyms include arrhizal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use arrhizous where its definition matches the intended context.
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