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Light-loving; growing in strong light, as many plants.

A dread or intolerance of light. Sir T. Watson.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of rays of light. A. G. Bell.

Of or pertaining to photophone.

The art or practice of using the photophone.

(Zoöl.) A light-emitting organ; specif., one of the luminous spots on certain marine (mostly deep-sea) fishes.

A division of Hymenoptera; the sawflies.

Phytophagous.

Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.

The eating of plants.

Vegetable physiology.

One of the Pneumonophora.

Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division.

Paleobotany.

A version to food; refusal to take nourishment. [Written also sitiophobia.]

Same as Spermospore.

Producing seed, or sperm; seminiferous; as, the so-called spermatophorous cells.

ion of its parts (root, stem, leaves, flowers, etc.); by the extreme reduction of the gametophyte; and by the development of seeds. All the Spermatophyta are heterosporous; fertilization of the egg cell is either through a pollen tube emitted by the microspore or (in a few gymnosperms) by spermatozoids. The phrase "flo…

Any plant of the phylum Spermatophyta. -- Sper`ma*to*phyt"ic (#), a.

A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.