geophilous
- Adjective. Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
- Adjective. (botany) Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
- Adjective. (context, phytogeography) growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
- Adjective. Fruiting underground.
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