geophilous

English

Etymology

From geo- +‎ -philous.

Adjective

geophilous (not comparable)

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

References

William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “geophilous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.