hygrophytic

1. 1.

   requiring an abundance of moisture

   “some tropical ferns are hygrophytic”

   Similarhydric

Questions about hygrophytic

What does hygrophytic mean?

hygrophytic means "requiring an abundance of moisture".

How many syllables are in hygrophytic?

hygrophytic has 4 syllables and divides as hy-gro-phy-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is hygrophytic a common word?

hygrophytic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.