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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An organism, especially a fungus or microorganism, that lives inside a plant, in a parasitic or mutualistic relationship.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as entophyte.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any organism that lives inside another plant

Etymologies

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endo- + -phyte

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